Quotes About Fantasy

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

East of the sun and west of the moon.

Where is it? I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. East of the sun and west of the moon, he said.

For all that I loved the old tales of magic, I did not actually want there to be talking animals and mysterious requests on storm-tossed nights. Such things were for stories and ought to remain there.

The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde, In this delightful land of Faery, Are so exceeding spacious and wyde, And sprinckled with such sweet variety, Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye, That I nigh rauisht with rare thoughts delight, My tedious trauell doe forget thereby; And when I gin to feele decay of might, It strength to me supplies and chears my dulled spright.

I remember Ronald Firbank once said, upon entering a bookshop, something like, "Do you have anything in my line, you know, something dreamy and vague?

what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

Oh, you know, fantasy I've always found a word I really don't care for. Fantasy always strikes me as something that doesn't have any reality because it's completely irresponsible. Anything that is fantastic I don't think is really terribly interesting. What's the Coleridge distinction between imagination and - is it fantasy? I don't think that's the word. Anyway, you know, one is meaningful and one isn't.

The specific difference between sf and other estranging genres, such as fantasy, is that sf's displacements must be logically consistent and methodical; in fact, they must be scientific to the extent that they imitate, reinforce and illuminate the process of scientific cognition.

imaginarias a lo largo

Capital erosion was another way to waste his substance, to become as thin and hollow as he felt, to lighten the burden of undeserved good fortune, and commit a symbolic suicide while he still dithered about the real one. He also nursed the opposite fantasy that when he became penniless he would discover some incandescent purpose born of his need to make money.

Narcissistic vampires are absolutely shameless in their fantasies about how great they are and how much everybody admires them, or should.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Siempre estuve enamorada de gente que no existe y aquí estás vos, hoy…». «Amas en mí a alguien que no existe»,

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

La libertà non è la ribellione ma piuttosto la pratica di una fantasia senza limiti all'interno delle restrizione imposte dal potere.

Men confide, lust rhetorically, copulate hypothetically with women of unacknowledged fantasy.