Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 13

• Cuando tenía diez años, leía cuentos de hadas en secreto y me habría avergonzado si me hubieran descubierto haciéndolo. Ahora que tengo cincuenta, los leo abiertamente. Cuando me hice hombre, dejé a un lado las cosas de niño, incluido el miedo a la niñería y el deseo de ser muy adulto.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Lying, Thinking

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). "Los usos del encantamiento: significado e importancia de los cuentos de hadas", Knopf

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• A la gente no le gusta lo verdadero y sencillo; le gustan los cuentos de hadas y las patrañas.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Simple, Civilization, Fairy Stories

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• There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

  Diane Arbus

  Quality, Answers, Demand

  "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

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• The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Children, Stories, World

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• Para quienes se sumergen en lo que el cuento de hadas tiene que comunicar, se convierte en un estanque profundo y tranquilo que al principio parece reflejar sólo nuestra propia imagen; pero tras él pronto descubrimos las turbulencias internas de nuestra alma, su profundidad, y las formas de conseguir la paz dentro de nosotros mismos y con el mundo, que es la recompensa de nuestras luchas.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Struggle, Soul, Depth

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• Todos los cuentos de hadas de Aladino, o el invisible Gyges, o el talismán que abre los palacios de los reyes, o los salones encantados bajo tierra o en el mar, son sólo ficciones para indicar el único milagro de la ampliación intelectual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reyes, Mar, Milagro

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). "Obras completas de Emerson"

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• The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Animal, Stories, Fables

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• My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

  Joan Chen

  Moments, Tales, Passports

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Perfect, Want, Being The Best

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Divorce, Mean, Independence

  "What Girls Want" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.theatlantic.com. December, 2008.

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Cake, Would Be, Four

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• I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Home, Broken

  "Angelina Jolie: I thought I'd never find love" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2014.

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• As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Book, Heart, Men

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). "El último unicornio", Roc

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• The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Dream, Wish, Purpose

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• Creo que un amor secreto es algo que ninguno de tus amigos entendería. Y es como un cuento de hadas, pero más serio.

  Yunho

  Love Is, Thinking, Secret Love

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• Al niño le encantan los cuentos de hadas no porque las imágenes que encuentra en ellos se ajusten a lo que le pasa por dentro, sino porque -a pesar de todos los pensamientos airados y ansiosos de su mente a los que el cuento de hadas da cuerpo y contenido específico- estas historias siempre desembocan en un desenlace feliz, que el niño no puede imaginar por sí mismo.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Anxious Thoughts, Giving

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• One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Views, Use

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). "Contra el método", p.23, Verso

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• Hoy en día no tenemos cuentos de hadas en los que creer, y posiblemente ésta sea una de las razones de la prevalencia universal del crack mental. Sí, si fuimos niños en el pasado, ojalá pudiéramos volver a serlo.

  Anita Loos

  Children, Believe, Past

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• What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Truth, Mean, Reality

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• Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

  Jim Carrey

  Nice, Good Love, Thinking

  "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. April 2004.

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• Esto es una prueba, ¿no? Es como elegir entre tres ataúdes en un cuento de hadas. Todo el mundo conoce las reglas. Nunca eliges el dorado brillante. O incluso el plateado bastante impresionante. Lo que se supone que tienes que hacer es elegir el pequeño y aburrido de plomo, y luego hay un destello de luz y se convierte en una montaña de joyas.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Joyas, Luz, Oro

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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.

  Jack Zipes

  Mean, Conquer, Metaphor

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• Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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