Maria Tatar Quotes

#1. The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

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#2. Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

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#3. The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience

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#4. Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

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#5. It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

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#6. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

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