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• I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

  Emily Mortimer

  Girl, Dancing, Kitsch

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Love, Reality, Opposites

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Giving Up, Hype, President

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, January 15, 1992.

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• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

  Nick Hornby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Wells

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

  Steven Erikson

  Kings, War, Reading

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• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Historical Novels, Imaginary

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• I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

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• I think that I am the luckiest cat on the planet and I'm living out my own dreams and fantasies and have been for a number of years and to remain at this stage of my life, you know, so alive and things have never been better.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Cat

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• There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

  Stevie Nicks

  Writing, Persons, Depends

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• I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Holiday, Thinking

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

  Rachel Dratch

  Women, Thinking, Childhood

  "Amy Poehler Talks to Rachel Dratch About Her Memoir". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.thedailybeast.com. March 26, 2012.

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• She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Real, Bridges, Waiting

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• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as you and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Dream, Self Esteem, True Identity

  "Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth".

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• When you're used to getting just a piece of bread for a meal, you don't realize that you can ask for a plate of pasta. You have never seen a plate of pasta. You don't even know it exists. So, to ask for it is totally out of your reality. Hopefully, at some point, either someone shows you a plate of pasta, you read about it, or you hear about it enough so that it becomes real, and it's not just a fantasy anymore, and then you start thinking "Hey, I want that pasta."

  Barbara De Angelis

  Real, Past, Thinking

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• The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

  Peter Alliss

  Golf, Games, Ability

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• Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

  Janet Morris

  Book, Heart, Technology

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• Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sin, Repentance, Opposition

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.46

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• You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Dragons, Trying

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• The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.

  Robin McKinley

  Dream, Writing, Dragons

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• Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Angel, Needs

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.408, Random House

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• I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.

  Lorrie Moore

  People, Funeral, Who Your Friends Are

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from May 29, 2011

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