Marcel Proust
Novelist
"If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two."
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Fantasy
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Elizabeth Moon
Science Fiction Author
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature"
Sappho
Poet
"Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables."
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."
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"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."
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"When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom."
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"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."
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"It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn."
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"I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains."
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"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
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"I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality."
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"Everybody must have a fantasy."
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"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
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"I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism."
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"We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult."
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"I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers."
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"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends."
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"What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk."
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"The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?"
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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."
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"Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove."
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"I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies."
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"Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out."
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