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“some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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