Maria Tatar quotes
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“It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.”
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“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.”
-- Maria TatarSource : Maria Tatar (2009). “Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.”
-- Maria TatarSource : Maria Tatar (2004). “Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives”, p.1, Princeton University Press
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“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”
-- Maria TatarSource : "The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm". Book by Maria Tatar, August 9, 2010.
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“The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.”
-- Maria Tatar
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“Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.”
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“Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.”
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“Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.”
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Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press
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“It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.”
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