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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

She’d already decided to be with him. If only to wipe him from her mind, get him out of her system and stop the fantasies plaguing her. If only to prove to herself that being with him would not be pleasurable for her.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly an object created in the mode of fantasy. His image was already present somewhere in my head and I was seeking to discover it in actuality, looking at every face I met in case it was the right face - that is, the face which corresponded to my notion of the unseen face of the one I should love, a face created parthenogeneticallyby the rage to love which consumed me.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

The dream of reason produces monsters

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.