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Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. the beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
-Charles De Lint
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Fairy Tales And Mythology Have Always Been

Charles De Lint
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. the beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
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[fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. when i was a kid i often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but i never felt that way about fairy tales. they are bloody and scary, but so is life.
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. my mother used to take me to the library in toronto to check out the fairy tales. and she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. they don't teach you how to love somebody. they don't teach you how to be famous. they don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. they don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. they don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. they don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. they don't teach you anything worth knowing.
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I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. you get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.
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People have always told tales. long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. if you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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