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Tales Quotes by Marina Warner
- Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them…
- Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
- The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not…
- The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds…
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- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
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- 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
- History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
- All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter
- I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary
- Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. — Hans Christian Andersen