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Tales Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up…
- When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I…
- Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's…
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- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon
- I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too… — Lord Byron