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  • Fantasy is the only truth. -- Abbie Hoffman
  • Fantasy love is much better than reality love. -- Andy Warhol
  • We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -- Iris Murdoch
  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
  • The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. -- Dr. Seuss
  • Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship. -- Keri Russell
  • Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. -- Hilary Mantel
  • Fantasy and reality often overlap. -- Walt Disney
  • Fantasy is literature for teenagers. -- Brian Aldiss
  • Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. -- Mason Cooley
  • Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. -- Elizabeth Moon
  • Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters -- Francisco Goya
  • Fantasy isn't something you run out of. -- Nancy Friday
  • Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. -- Tom Stoppard
  • Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream. -- Philip Treacy
  • Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. -- Pat Conroy
  • Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine? -- Mason Cooley
  • Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. -- Brandon Mull
  • Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives. -- Marie Lu
  • Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism. -- Dino Buzzati
  • Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Fantasy stays in the mind. Reality stays in the heart. -- Rizi Dame C. Briz
  • Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time -- Adam Lambert
  • Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. -- Walter Wangerin
  • Look At Only The Reality Because Reality Is Better Than Fantasy -- Sushil Singh
  • Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on. -- Joe Hill
  • Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. -- Terry Brooks
  • Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths. -- James D. Maxon
  • I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality. -- Lana Del Rey
  • Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing. -- Jay Mohr
  • Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. -- Lloyd Alexander
  • Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality. -- Alan Cohen
  • Fantasy. Lunacy.All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. -- David Mitchell
  • Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
  • Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. -- Rod Serling
  • Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper. -- Jim Capaldi
  • Fantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens. -- Michelle Franklin
  • Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with -- Peter Jackson
  • Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well. -- Sarah Zettel
  • Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. -- Almney King
  • Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. -- Jean M. Auel
  • Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. -- Paul S. Kemp
  • Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. -- Pamela Cummins
  • I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. -- Lester Bowie
  • I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.' -- Tom Hanks
  • Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. -- Stephen King
  • I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. -- Woody Allen
  • I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy. -- Rob Thurman
  • Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
  • Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. -- Eudora Welty
  • I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. -- Sarah Zettel
  • Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go. -- Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. -- Vera Nazarian
  • Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference. -- R. A. Salvatore
  • People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie. -- Terry Pratchett
  • How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance? -- Paula Millhouse
  • Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.' -- Tom Hanks
  • Everyone needs a fantasy. -- Andy Warhol
  • All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. -- Max Beerbohm
  • In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. -- Nora Ephron
  • I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. -- Lady Gaga
  • If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. -- Maya Angelou
  • About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. -- Manolo Blahnik
  • All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. -- Walt Disney
  • I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. -- Jennifer Connelly
  • Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -- Carl Jung
  • Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. -- Yasmine Bleeth
  • The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. -- Sam Harris
  • The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people. -- Hugh Hefner
  • Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. -- Zadie Smith
  • The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. -- Lionel Trilling
  • 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
  • I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? -- Rainbow Rowell
  • Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. -- Gunter Grass
  • It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. -- Brian Perkins
  • Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women. -- Kelley Armstrong
  • Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. -- Giacomo Casanova
  • I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. -- Manuel Puig
  • Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
  • 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
  • All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. -- Michele Bachmann
  • Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. -- R. A. Salvatore
  • In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. -- Will Smith
  • My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living. -- Ryan McGinley
  • If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig. -- Todd McFarlane
  • Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. -- Bill Maher
  • Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. -- Kate Winslet
  • I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness. -- Michael Hirst
  • The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? -- Alan Rickman
  • I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
  • 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
  • The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. -- Naomi Wolf
  • I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Nice shack -- Anna Banks
  • People with imagination -- Arthur Levine
  • You are so... 11:59 -- Scott Westerfeld
  • Leaves lift trees. -- Larry Good
  • Women. Bane. Yeah. -- Artemis Crow
  • Aren't we forever? -- Cassandra Clare
  • reading is awsome -- Christopher Paolini
  • Beauty is harsh. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I hate goblins. -- Seth Tucker
  • Aelin is alive. -- Sarah J. Maas
  • Light or Death! -- Brian A. McBride
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