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“The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology…

— Richard J. Borden

I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little…

— Alice Englert

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

— Fred Vargas

“It is impossible to maintain fantasy in the face of true emotional intimacy. Fantasy alienates, disconnects, and isolates people. Fantasy and cults isolate people.…

— Stefan Molyneux

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a…

— Sergio Chejfec

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance…

— Jane Yolen

“Sometimes, we need a little bit of fantasy to help soften the edges of our reality." ~Nathan Nelson, Blindsided (Authors Chris Almeida & Cecilia Aubrey)”

— Chris Almeida

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel…

— Brit Marling

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to…

— Frances Bean Cobain

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner…

— J. G. Ballard

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

— Lynne Tillman

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or…

— Lloyd Alexander