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«American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international»
Author: Bernard Tavernier | About: Cinema | Keywords: cinema, International, tales
«Do not ask questions of fairy tales»
Author: Jewish Proverb | Keywords: fairy, fairy tales, tales
«Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.»
«Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave»
Author: Theodore Dreiser (Novelist) | About: Soul | Keywords: afterward, assure, frighten, hooked, tales
«?But that?s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn?t. And if they had, we shouldn?t know, because they?d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end?»
«A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.»
«And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: tales
«Dead men tell no tales.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: tales
«All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe»
«Choosing forms of worship form poetic tales.»

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