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"Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End."
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fairytales
stories
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Salman Rushdie |
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4a06bb4
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Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate her grandmother, without making any impression on his appetite, and then ate her, after making that ferocious joke about his teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it but to look out the Wolf in the Noah's Ark there, and put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who was to be degraded.
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christmas-eve
little-red
dickens
noah-s-ark
fairytale
fairytales
wolves
christmas
red
wolf
little-red-riding-hood
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Charles Dickens |
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133a94e
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Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.
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fairytales
storytelling
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Gregory Maguire |
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"What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins"
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humorous
fairytales
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Charles de Lint |
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de3b30a
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What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts. [...] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty, not my parents, but these tales which promised that sleeping in the snow never caused pneumonia, that bread never turned stale, that trees blossomed out of season, that dragons could be killed with courage, that intense wishing would be followed immediately by fulfillment of the wish. Intrepid wishing, said the fairytales, was more effective than labor. The smoke issuing from Aladdin's lamp was my first smokescreen, and the lies learned from fairytales were my first perjuries. Let us say I had perverted tendencies: I believed everything I read.
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imagination
fairytales
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Anaïs Nin |
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bdc86bc
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"Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
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love-quotes
true-love
hope
love
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
fairytales
fairy-tales-retold
relationship-quotes
smile
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Ameya Agrawal |
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1d3f963
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people...
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fairytales
legends
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Betty Smith |
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2c0be05
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If I could see not one single soul in that wilderness of desolation all around me, then the six of us - mounts and riders, both - could boast amongst us not one soul, either, since all the best religions in the world state categorically that not beasts nor women were equipped with the flimsy, insubstantial things when the good Lord opened the gates of Eden and let Eve and her familiars thumble out.
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religion
sarcastic-observations
fairytales
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Angela Carter |
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8d257a1
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In fairy tales, the heroes are punished when they run away from a task. The heroes, not their younger brothers...
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heroes
family
fairytales
punishment
siblings
hero
ya
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Cornelia Funke |
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d74e103
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Nicht die Kinder bloss, speist man mit Marchen ab.
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fairytales
children
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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1bb76be
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The best lies stay close to the truth.
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lies
young-adult
truth
fairytales
young-adult-fantasy
truth-and-lies
liar
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Cornelia Funke |
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eef25af
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Hentzau saw the Jade Goyl just as clearly as the Fairy had in her dreams. The pale green stone ran through his human skin like a promise.
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fantasy
fantasy-worlds
fairytales
portal-fantasy
young-adult-fantasy
fairy
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Cornelia Funke |
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07bacfa
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The Dark Fairy touched her chest. No heart, like her sisters. So where did the love come from?
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fairy-tales
young-adult
fantasy
love
fairytales
heartless-love
portal-fantasy
young-adult-fantasy
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Cornelia Funke |