"Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare." — Gail Caldwell

"Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare."

— Gail Caldwell

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24 Quotes by Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become…
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out…
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to…
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks…
The flaw is the thing we love.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to…
Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often…

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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and… — Dario Argento
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics… — Michele Bachmann
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more… — Amy Adams
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're… — Scott Bakula
There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real… — Christian Bale
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and… — Charles Baudelaire
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. — Max Beerbohm
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. — Manolo Blahnik

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