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If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
Marcel Proust
If we are to make life bearable, we must all nurture a delusion or two.
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Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.
Betty Shabazz
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
Elizabeth Moon
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Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
Jimmy Fallon
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
Coco Chanel
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Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
Jay Mohr
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The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
Caspar David Friedrich
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Sappho
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Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
Neil Gaiman
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Carl Sagan
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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.
Mooji
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.
Rob Dyrdek
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
Sophia Loren
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I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Geoffrey Rush
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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.
Gunter Grass
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Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.
Jason Fried
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Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.
Gifford Pinchot
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.
Richard Dawkins
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I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Italo Calvino
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I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.
Lana Del Rey
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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
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I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.
Thomas Pynchon
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This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Brandon Sanderson
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We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
Sasha Grey
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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.
Gene Wilder
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
Iris Murdoch
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We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.
Lady Gaga
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Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."
Sasha Grey
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Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.
Sakyong Mipham
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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
Christopher Lee
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Lionel Trilling
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Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
William Shakespeare
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
James Cameron
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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.
John Muir
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In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.
Syd Mead