Kate Bernheimer quotes

“From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.”
-- Kate Bernheimer

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“The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.”
-- Kate Bernheimer

Source : "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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“As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.”
-- Kate Bernheimer

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“When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.”
-- Kate Bernheimer

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“I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?”
-- Kate Bernheimer

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“People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.”
-- Kate Bernheimer

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“Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,”

Source : 32 across @aoscott, twitter.com. January 4, 2014.

“Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.”

Source : Alaa Al Aswany (2004). “The Yacoubian Building”, p.192, I.B.Tauris

“Life happened because I turned the pages.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.200, Penguin

“Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.”

“American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.”