Fantasy Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Would Be, Paradise, Boring

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• We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Real, World, Paranoid

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.29, Vintage

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• To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

  Marc Chagall

  Understanding Nature, Would Be, Fairy Tale

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

  Maria Tatar

  Roots, Childhood, Anxiety

  "The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm". Book by Maria Tatar, August 9, 2010.

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• In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

  Syd Mead

  Reality, Lines, Thread

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• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

  Ellen Kushner

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

  Frank Miller

  Stupid, Character, Mean

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• At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Lying, Roots, Curiosity

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• I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Thinking, Long

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• That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Fear, Real, Adventure

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• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

  Graham Joyce

  Swimming, Winning, Awards

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fighting, Reality, Ordinary

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

  Mark Gatiss

  Childhood, Minorities, Tvs

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• Scuba Blue offers a feeling of escape as it is reminiscent of a tropical ocean. This stirring and energizing shade takes us off to an exotic paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Ocean, Blue, Feelings

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• A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Kids, Technology, Law

  "Why gravity director Alfonso Cuarón will never make a space movie again" by Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. October 01, 2013.

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• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  Christopher Alexander

  Dream, Mean, Reality

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

  Philip Treacy

  Dream, Giving, Hats

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• Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

  Ned Sublette

  Politician, Including

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• The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.

  Ned Sublette

  Song, Sex, Thinking

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• Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Reading, Too Much

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• Phonogram was explicitly about our world. It’s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those who’ve fallen into its world. In a real way, it’s real. Conversely, W+D is much more overt. The appearance of the gods changes the world, and has changed the world going back. There’s the strong implication that certain figures in our world simply didn’t exist in The Wicked And The Divine‘s world, because they were replaced by a god.

  Kieron Gillen

  Strong, Real, Our World

  "The Wicked + The Divine: The Entire Creative Team Talks Story, Art, Design, Color, Letters + Music". Interview with Patrick A. Reed, comicsalliance.com. June 18, 2014.

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• It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

  Michael Hyatt

  Odds, Succeed, Settling

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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