Fantasy Quotes - Page 35

• I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

  Lev Grossman

  Asking, Way, Century

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

  Lev Grossman

  Numbers, Play, Unbroken

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• You need a good fantasy to boost arousal enough to climax... thinking about what you should make for dinner tomorrow during sex is not going to do it.

  Gail Saltz

  Sex, Thinking, Arousal

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, Avid, People

  "Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, and Screenwriter Diablo Cody YOUNG ADULT Interview". collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

  Ben Stiller

  People, Childhood, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

  Nathan Fillion

  Great Day, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

  Lev Grossman

  Dragons, Cartoon, Wizards

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

  Jane Green

  Reality, Long, Trying

  Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.80, Broadway Books

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• If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

  Carl Jung

  Simplicity, Development, Fragments

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Luxury, Soul

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

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• Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fancy

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• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

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• The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

  Vera Brittain

  Successful, Order, Ideas

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• I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

  Harry Mathews

  Dream, Able, France

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Men, Imagination, Wheels

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• I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.

  Bryan Davis

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

  Bryan Davis

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

  Denis MacShane

  Europe, Potters, Politician

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• The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

  Terrence Howard

  Dream, Believe, Dark

  "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

  John Muir

  Real, Imagination, Infinite

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

  William Osler

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.38, ACP Press

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• Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

  Betty Shabazz

  Reality, People, Deals

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