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Quotes About Fantasy

I think when you're young, being in love for the first time is like this fantasy.
~ Noah Centineo
I used to love the idea of being in love, even though I hadn't been in love before.
~ Radhika Pandit
But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad. . . .
~ Jon Krakauer
narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. According to DSM-IV, NPD is distinguished by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy
~ Jon Krakauer
But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have.
~ Jon Krakauer
Sure, because it's a fairy tale. They're always so tediously moral. Nobody gets away with anything fun and all the interesting people are bad guys.
~ Jonathan Carroll
If you sleep, if you dream, you must accept your dreams. It's the role of the dreamer.
~ Jonathan Coe
Sex with a squirrel who had exciting breasts beneath her little-kid pajamas was not without its appeal
~ Jonathan Franzen
All of a sudden I became aware of how very hungry I was to construct and inhabit an imagined world.
~ Jonathan Franzen
All Thinking is Wishful.
~ Jonathan Lethem
She was so beautiful, like someone who you will never meet, but always dream of meeting, like someone who is too good for you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of his second death. What else could he do?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
They were miserable at sports, but great at fantasy sports. They avoided fights, but sought arguments.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.
~ Jonathan Swift
Qual não foi o meu espanto quando enxerguei uma figurinha humana que pouco mais teria de seis polegadas, empunhando um arco e uma flecha, e com uma aljava às costas!
~ Jonathan Swift
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; and now that I have unlimited power, I am going to cause a tiger. - Dreamtigers
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La imaginación está hecha de convenciones de la memoria. Si yo no tuviera memoria no podría imaginar.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in Olalla when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In the dreaming man's dream, the dreamed man awoke.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
En el sueño del hombre que soñaba, el soñado se despertó.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We took out our heavy revolvers (all of a sudden there were revolvers in the dream) and joyfully killed the Gods.
~ Jorge Luís Borges