"Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies."
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"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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"So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)"
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"I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing."
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"I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies."
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"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
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"I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy."
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"Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go."
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"The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment."
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"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."
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"Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality."
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"[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one."
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"Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality."
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"Most of my short stories are fantasy."
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"I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy."
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"Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker."
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"The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies."
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"Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion."
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"Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being."
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"Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy."
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