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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.


G.K. Chesterton

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KATE FORSYTH Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy t...
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TERRY PRATCHETT Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f...
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PENINA MEZEI Keep your sword close and your friends closer.
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YEHUDA AMICHAI Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert...
DAISUKE TAKAHASHI Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta...
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KENDARE BLAKE I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morn...
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DEBORAH BLAKE She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh
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JULIE KAGAWA When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca...
PAUL HENDERSON I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ...
JACK ZIPES A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
ERALDO BANOVAC Anyway, it’s unthinkable! Dragons and knights are born enemies. They need to be enemies just like ...
ELIAS ZAPPLE We view this as a fairy tale ... a story about damsels who have to fight off the dragons in their li...
CHRIS WILLARD Fairy-tales are nice.
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PAUL HENDERSON Do you ever wonder about the fairy tales of life?
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BEVERLY CLEARY A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.
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JOSEPH JACOBS When they first wrote the fairy tales about love people lived to 30, in the modern world maybe we ne...
CARL WHITE Never trust the meaning of fairy tales.
LOSUNGEN There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fai...
SAMUEL LOVER If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
AUDREY HEPBURN During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridic...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
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MELINDA RABIN Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You...
PRISCILLA HOWE The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ...
JACK ZIPES Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last c...
TERRI WINDLING A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
G.K. CHESTERTON I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to ch...
MIKE MYERS For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers th...
JENNIFER RARDIN If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
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LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number...
DAVID WHITELAND the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories ...
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A.S. BYATT To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wid...
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TERRI WINDLING To believe that you can contain this locally is to believe in fairy tales.
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JANE YOLEN I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
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G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha...
G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha...
G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ...
G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Sy...
G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No...
G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ...
G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ...
G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode...
G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over.

"There is," sai...
G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c...
G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ...
G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha...
G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica...
G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha...
G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu...
G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat...
G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th...
G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things...
G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ...
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