Fairy Stories Quotations
Fairy Stories Quotes from:
- J R R Tolkien
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Evelyn Keyes
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Andre Breton
- Bruno Bettelheim
- C S Lewis
- Christopher Lee
- Edmond De Goncourt
- Gilbert Ryle
- Hedy Lamarr
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Iain Banks
- Jeanette Winterson
- John Fowles
- Marie Curie
- Michael Bergin
- Nat King Cole
- Ralph Ellison
- Salman Rushdie
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Children Quotes
A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.
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Children Quotes
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.
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Lost Love Quotes
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.