“If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.”
Source: Good in Bed
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American writer 1970Related quotes
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
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