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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. -- Antonio Tabucchi
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. -- Ernst Fischer
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. -- Jacques Derrida
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people. -- Graham Joyce
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. -- Azar Nafisi
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. -- Paul Bloom
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand. -- Joyce Carol Oates
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. -- Ernst Fischer
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. -- Edmund White

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