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Quotes About Fantasy

The best love affairs are those we never had
~ Norman Lindsay
But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms.
~ Norman Lock
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.
~ Norman Rush
Imagination creates reality, and as desire is a part of imagination, the world we desire is more real than the world we passively accept.
~ Northrop Frye
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
~ Norton Juster
There is more truth in their romances than in learned chronicles.
~ Novalis
Hätten wir auch eine Phantastik wie eine Logik, so wäre die Erfindungskunst – erfunden. Zur Phantastik gehört auch die Ästhetik gewissermaßen wie die Vernunftlehre zur Logik.
~ Novalis
Ra?iunea practic? este fantezie creatoare pur?.
~ Novalis
Tá tóithín ag macnas i ndoimheas mo mhachnaimh.
~ Unknown
Balzac, kendini romantik sanan genç k?zlar?n, saçma sapan hayallerini beslemek için okuduklar? ikinci s?n?f bir romanc?d?r. - Selim I??k
~ Unknown
Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-
~ Obert Skye
If wishes were fishes, we'd all have smelly hands.
~ Obert Skye
90% magic, 10% poliester.
~ Obert Skye
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
~ Octavia Butler
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
~ Octavia Butler
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.
~ Octavia Butler
Everyone would still be here, frozen in time just as I left them. But no, that's fantasy.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.
~ Odilon Redon
I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
~ Ogden Nash
It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it.
~ Ogden Nash
ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel
~ Ogden Nash
Imagination creates some big monsters.
~ Olivier Martinez
Love is based on imagination.
~ Olivier Martinez
Otkako sam u snu vidjela ?ovjeka kojega ljubim, otada sam po?ela voljeti svoje snove.
~ Ono no Komachi