Kate Bernheimer quotes
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“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.”
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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 BernheimerSource : "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.”
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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.”
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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?”
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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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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.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“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
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“We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,”
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“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
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“Life happened because I turned the pages.”
Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.200, Penguin
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“American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.”
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