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“I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.”

Thinking Behinds Adults Leaving Fairytale

“I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.”

“In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.”

Stills Order Rich These Days Economist Fairytale

Author:Michael Hudson

“The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.”

Storytelling Prophecy Testament Old Testament Fairytale Chronicles Documentation

Author:Amos Oz

“Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.”

Facts Rooms Security Type Window Corners Absence Hotel Locked Locks Fairytale Hotel Rooms Storyline Passwords

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in for everybody, so actions take on fairytale significance. And the writing has to be pared down to represent people as types, too.”

People Writing Character Action Film Silent Significance Fairytale

Author:Guy Maddin

“Divorce was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of it wasn't so. But I don't really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.”

Dream Reality Attention Lifetime Divorce Desperate Fairytale Candid

Author:Katy Perry

“Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.”

Character Grace Shoes Fairytale Iconic

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.”

Thinking Kids Life Is Complicated Straightforward Fairytale Life Is Not Easy Being Straightforward

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”

Spiritual Lost Our Lives Doors Magic Discovery Tales Kingdoms Obsession Obsessed Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale Magic Kingdom

Book:More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition

Source: More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition

“You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.”

People Enough Tired Fairytale Had Enough Best Place Cannes

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”

Ifs Faces Literature Magic Angel Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale

Author:Danielle Steel

“I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.”

World Kind Certain Rose Glasses Alaska Fairytale Colored Glass Rose Colored Glasses

Author:Sharon Tate

“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.”

Writing Reality Artist Fiction Fairytale Gonzo

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Source: Coraline

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Natural Wife Childhood Tales Fairy Feds Fairy Tale Geography Fairytale Fables Natural History

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”

Way Angel Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale

Author:W. H. Auden

“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”

Ifs Ideas Ends Happens Running Conditions Ethics Core Tales Fairy Nurse Fairy Tale Fairytale Nursery Peace And Happiness Fairytale Ending

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it.”

Ifs Giving Wells Whole Age Form Used Can Do Class Fantasy Reader Concepts Add Myth Fairy Fairy Tale Concrete Bats Fairytale

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.”

World Heart Children Use Reality Evil Magic Mines Concepts Wit Tales Abstract Fairy Good And Evil Fairy Tale Fairytale Heroines Save Me

Author:Terri Windling

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

Source: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)

“Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.”

World Looks Steps Entrepreneur Glasses Producers Cartoon Entering Animation Another World Fairytale Disneyland Portal Animator Through The Looking Glass

Author:Walt Disney

“The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.”

War Tales Dragons Resolve Fairytale

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.”

Knows Wells Littles War Fun Stars Simple Crazy Sweet Combination Sci Fi Fairytale

Author:Mel Brooks

“Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.”

Want Stills Brain These Days Fairytale

Author:Robert Musil

“Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.”

Wells Littles Lovely Dawn Princess Fairytale Little Princess

Book:Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep

Source: Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep

“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 am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”

Lessons Beast Fairy Tale Fairytale Lovable

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”

Dark Fire Love Each Other Fairytale

Author:Mathias Malzieu

“Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”

Men Want Kind Dream Might Courses Grows Hurt Growing Up Knowing Risk Fairytale Women Want

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.”

Ifs Needs Promise Understood Fairytale

Book:The Orange Girl

Source: The Orange Girl

“If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.”

Ifs Humans Sometimes Lost Loses Human Beings Known Feet Dear Chosen Fairytale

Book:The Orange Girl

Source: The Orange Girl

“I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.”

Past Guy Glasses Teenager Giants Fairytale Ponytails Whisk Sweatshirts

Author:Jeff Sampson

“Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.”

May Has Beens Hard Reading Dark Silence Figures Letting Go Conviction Daylight Fairytale

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.”

Said Character Facts Morning Alive Bangs Fairytale Bursting I Am Alive

Book:The Solitaire Mystery

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

“There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson”

Love Firsts Two Different Love Is Lessons Categories Fairytale

Author:Taylor Swift

“… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.”

World Real Reality Eye Sound Impossible Silent Versions Revelations Real World Chins Fairytale Accompany Fables Bonnets

Book:It Chooses You

Source: It Chooses You

“… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.”

Knows Fairytale

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

World Dream Eye Saws Impossible Possibility His Eyes Fairytale Dream World

Book:How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.”

Sometimes Stuff Perfect Charming Fairytale Hazel Grace

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.”

World Reality Heartbreaking Fairytale

Author:Taylor Swift

“She tasted of fairytales”

Fairytale

Author:Laini Taylor

“Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.”

Life Mean Pain Happiness Death Change Movement Tales Life Changing Fairy Scholar Fairy Tale Fairytale Permanence Paralysis

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“Story book endings, fairytales coming true.”

Book Stories Music Fairytale Story Book

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.”

People Want Fantasy Fashion Fairytale Metamorphosis Vogue Change Yourself

Author:Marc Jacobs

“I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.”

Stories Concepts Fairytale

Author:Darren Criss

“I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.”

Writing Kind Littles Hard Done Stories Kids Wanted Asks Bits Waiting Novel Mom Little Bit Decided My Mom All Kinds Obsessed Hard Times Fairytale Get It Done Inquisitive

Author:Chris Colfer

“When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.”

Romance Parent Impossible Splits Happy Endings Fairytale

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem...”

Men Hard Stories Problem Bigs Fiction Wonderful Land Doctors Logic Blue Science Fiction Boxes Doctor Who Fairytale Wonderful Man

Author:Neil Gaiman

“In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.”

Christian Jobs Used Tales Used To Be Classic Fairy Fairy Tale Fairytale Kindergarten Grimm

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

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