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To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as… — Maria Tatar
I want to believe in the fairy tale. — Monica Murphy
Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. — Annabel Tollman
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater… — Gunter Grass
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are… — Graham Joyce
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of… — Eazy-E
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me — Natalia Kills
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to… — Erin Morgenstern
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious. — Yunho
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. — Edmond de Goncourt
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. — Rupert Sanders
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror… — Juno Temple
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se. — Max Landis
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. — Erin Morgenstern
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. — Diane Arbus
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or… — Yehuda Amichai
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect… — Bruno Bettelheim

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