Fantasy Quotes

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Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. — Philip Larkin
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isnâ€™t just a fantasy makes me want to find it again. But what… — Susane Colasanti
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem… — Anne Carson
Iâ€™m really not hungry,â€ she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. â€œJust a few bites,â€ he cajoled, taking his… — Linda Howard
Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? — Shannon Hale
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. — Eric Jerome Dickey
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. â€¦People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they… — Unknown Author
Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. — Stephen King
I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own… — Christine Feehan
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — James M. Barrie
Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not… — Sara Gruen
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to… — Michael Crichton
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in… — Michael Crichton
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns… — Neil Gaiman
We're all mad here. — Lewis Carroll
A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that… — Lisa Kleypas

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