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Мари́на Са́ра Уо́рнер — британская писательница, историк и мифограф. Профессор Лондонского университета , член Британской академии , президент Королевского литературного общества . Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Ноябрь 1946
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“The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.”

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Marina Warner

Источник: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled…It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”

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Marina Warner

Joan of Arc (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1981] 1983) p. 262.

“Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.”

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Marina Warner

Wonder Tales (Oxford: OUP, 2004) p. 3.

“Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.”

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Marina Warner

Joan of Arc (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1981] 1983) p. 263.

“The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.”

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Marina Warner

Alone of All Her Sex (London: Picador, [1976] 1985) p. 338.