Quotes with fairy-tale

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

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Walter Scott 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Aaron Hill Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Hans Christian Andersen Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Carolyn Leigh Fairy tales can come true, It can happen to you If you're young at heart.
    Young at Heart (1954)
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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