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“In olden times, when wishing still helped…” - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” quote by Jack Zipes — Download Open image

““In olden times, when wishing still helped…” - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm””

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The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

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Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

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“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

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What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of…

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“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on…

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“Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live…

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Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

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“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

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“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it…

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Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

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Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must…

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It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a…

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Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

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Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

Vivian Vande Velde

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“...but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart…

Laurell K. Hamilton

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My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with…

Chuck Palahniuk

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I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort…

Erin Morgenstern

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I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,'…

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“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France), Hans Christian…

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The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in the 1950s…

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Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

Michael Buckley

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“Still, she stood looking fabulous like a princess should, licking her blood red lips the moment she laid her eyes on the beautiful prince.…

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I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always…

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Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

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