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Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

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Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true m...

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They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...

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I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been ...

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The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness...

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Marina WarnerOnce Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew tha...

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any exte...

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The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are ...

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It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y...

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And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.

And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at least s...

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He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?...

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In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his ...

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