Fantasy Quotes

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Thinking, People, Imagine

  Source: www.esquire.com

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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

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• Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

  Sigmund Freud

  Childhood, Gold, Fascination

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• In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Ambition, Past

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Inspiration, Elements

  "Selected Writings".

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  The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Motivational, People

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• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Reality, Tasks

  In 'The Times' 15 April 1983 'Profile'

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• Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

  Bernard Schubert

  Reality, Dies

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• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fantasy Stories, Glory, Escapists

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

  Dorothy Draper

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Memorable, Housewife

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• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Monsters, Useless

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• Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Together, Myth

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• But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Real, People, World

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• It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Fantasy Stories, Answers

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.521, Penguin

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• All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Success, Creativity, Ideas

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Monsters, Criminal Mind, Abandoned Buildings

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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• I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Certain

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Play, Imagination

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Marine, Men, Swings

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• Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Past, Defense

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