Fantasy Quotes - Page 38

• I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Feelings, Emotion, Fierce

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• New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Effort, Sailing

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Long, Childhood

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.265, Macmillan

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• A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Real, Character, Sacrifice

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• Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You can force it. you can control your sexuality, but that is not going to help. You will not be celibate, you will be only more and more sexual. Sex will spread all over your being. It will become part of your unconscious. It will move your dreams, it will become your motivation in dreams, it will become your fantasy. In fact, you will become more sexual than you ever were before. You will think more about it and you will have to repress it again and again.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sex, Motivation

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• Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Growing Up, Cost, Accomplished

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.132, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

  Azar Nafisi

  Rights, Imagination, Bills

  Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.337, Penguin UK

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• Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

  China Mieville

  Attention, Fiction, Horror

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• I've been able to do a lot of things a lot of people haven't, that other people would dream of. I've been able to live out my fantasies, and dreams! So, I'm real lucky.

  Joan Jett

  Dream, Real, People

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• All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

  James Joyce

  Fiction

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• We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

  Ethan Hawke

  Reality, Perfect, Fit

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• I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

  Edie Brickell

  Easter, Crazy, Eggs

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• It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Writing, Always Trying, Work Out

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• The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Differences, Tree, Fiction

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  David Gemmell

  Children, Writing, Garden

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• Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Healing, Order, Needs

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• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Acting, Too Much

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Comforting, Religion, Finals

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

  Anne Frank

  Writing, My Thoughts, Ideals

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.131, GENERAL PRESS

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• And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Nostalgic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Tangled, Soul

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.408, Penguin UK

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• Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

  Christopher Darden

  Fun, Hard Work, Writing

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• The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Past, Alive

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• We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

  Marina Keegan

  Self, Perfect, Perspective

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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