Folktales Quotes

• Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

  Marisa Silver

  Attention, Strange, Given

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Language

  Joseph Campbell (1969). “The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Hubo un tiempo en que creía que las hadas sólo vivían en los libros, en los viejos cuentos populares y en el pasado. Eso fue antes de que irrumpieran en mi vida como seres vibrantes y luminosos, impregnando mi arte y mi existencia cotidiana, causando gloriosos estragos.

  Brian Froud

  Arte, Libro, Pasado

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• History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Truth, People, Stories

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• Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

  Steven Tyler

  Wife, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

  Robin McKinley

  Culture, Levels, Grassroots

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• The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Moving, Wicked, Adults

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• Al fin y al cabo, ¿no es así como los seres humanos damos forma al universo, damos forma al propio tiempo? ¿Acaso no tomamos la materia prima del caos y le imponemos un principio, un nudo y un desenlace, como en el más simple y profundo de los cuentos populares, para reflejar las formas de nuestras diminutas vidas? Y si los físicos tienen razón en que el mundo físico cambia a medida que lo observamos, y nosotros somos sus únicos observadores conocidos, ¿no estaremos doblegando todo el universo caótico, el eterno y siempre activo Ahora, para adaptarlo a esa forma familiar?

  Tad Williams

  Profound, Bending, World

  Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.584, Penguin

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• But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Girl, Two

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• No es de extrañar que los pensadores de grupos para los que la blancura era y es un problema hayan tomado la iniciativa en el estudio de la blancura de este modo. Este estudio comenzó con los cuentos populares de esclavos y las historias de los indios americanos sobre el contacto con los blancos.

  David Roediger

  Taken, Groups, Stories

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations.

  Cat Rambo

  Tired, Intelligent, Stories

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