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Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. -- Volkmar Sigusch
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines. -- Erin Morgenstern
Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. -- Volkmar Sigusch
Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories. -- B.J. Neblett
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. -- Ray Bradbury
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are. -- Roger Ebert
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle. -- Marlon Brando
Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward. -- Cornel West
Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality. -- Laura Antoniou
Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time. -- Maya Banks
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it. -- Rosemarie DeWitt
Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in! -- George H. W. Bush
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong. -- Kay Hooper
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. -- Alice Miller
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. -- Hypatia
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. -- Federico Fellini
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. -- Don DeLillo
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. -- Marilyn Monroe
Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality. -- Jane Green
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. -- Marilyn Monroe
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. -- Jimmy Fallon
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. -- Joel Edgerton
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. -- Audre Lorde
I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy. -- Brion James
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth. -- Tim Walker
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. -- Anthony Bourdain
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. -- Trevor Noah
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much. -- Charles Platt
Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens. -- Larry David
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. -- J. G. Ballard
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living. -- Emily Browning
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace. -- Linda McCartney
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. -- Mohsin Hamid
Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies -- Thomas Jefferson
Movies are romantic fantasies. -- Ira Sachs
Hell is other people's fantasies... -- Salman Rushdie
Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful. -- Thom Yorke
Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint. -- Caroline Knapp
Sometimes fantasies are better than life. -- Beatrice Sparks
God forbid that women have fantasies. -- E. L. James
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies. -- Kathy Acker
The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies. -- Robert Pinsky
Theories are just fantasies. And they change. -- Michael Crichton
Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies. -- Edmond Rostand
Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities. -- Jenna Alatari
The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities. -- Peter Alliss
Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies. -- Mike Vance
It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together. -- Mitch Albom
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. -- Sappho
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As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music. -- Lou Doillon
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it. -- Gene Wolfe
The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid. -- Noam Chomsky
Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies. -- John Twelve Hawks
If you rescue me from my pipe dreams, I'll stop smoking fantasies. -- Munia Khan
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes. -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. -- Siri Hustvedt
Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood. -- Sigmund Freud
Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions. -- Amory Lovins
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. -- Nicholas Sparks
[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them. -- Carol Tavris
If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens. -- Sheila Ballantyne
I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies. -- Sasha Grey
No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized. -- George Michael
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess. -- R. A. Salvatore
... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies. -- Doris Lessing
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.... -- Nicolas Chamfort
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things. -- Daniel Craig
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. -- Michel de Montaigne
We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality. -- Erica Jong
I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally. -- George Michael
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. -- Anne Frank
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses -- Anais Nin
Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them. -- Ruth Westheimer
Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies. -- Howard Hughes
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. -- Stephen Batchelor
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won't come through. -- Susan Sontag
As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. -- Chris Van Allsburg
There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies. -- George R. R. Martin
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. -- Joan Didion
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. -- Marilyn Monroe
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies -- Fran Lebowitz
Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends. -- William Shakespeare
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. -- Peter Shaffer
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies. -- Fran Lebowitz
Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. -- Pamela Cummins
I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies. -- Kelly Reilly
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one. -- Anne Sexton
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you. -- Anna Deavere Smith
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. -- James Russell Lowell
I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim... -- Alonzo Bodden
All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. -- Brian Perkins
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? -- Cassandra Clare
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing. -- Blaise Cendrars
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. -- Judith Viorst
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. -- Lisa Kleypas
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix. -- Phoebe Snow
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Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously. -- Anne Meara
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be. -- Lillian B. Rubin
If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies. -- Alyssa Brugman
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. -- Neil Gaiman
If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life? -- Alethea Kontis
...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into. -- Supervert
It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book. -- James Patterson
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. -- Karl Albrecht
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? -- Alfred de Musset

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