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Fantasy Quotes
"Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, "Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator."
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"Oliver paused for a few seconds, then leaned forward with his elbows braced on his knees, pale hands dangling. "When I was . . . transformed, I thought in the beginning that I could stay with those mortals I loved. It isn't smart. You should understand this by now. We stay apart for a reason."You stay apart so you don't feel guilty for doing what it is you do, I shot back. "I'm not like you. I'll never be like you. Best of all, I don't have to be."
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"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
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"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it."
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"I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker."
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"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
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"There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing."
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"I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'."
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"The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secular world, with its dirty devices. The world of fairy tale, fantasy, myth, is inimical to the secular world, and in total opposition to it, for it is interested not in limited laboratory proofs but in truth."
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"Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be."
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"Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo."
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"One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me."
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"Did you know, ji,' Zulu offered, 'that the map of Tolkien's Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst."
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"I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever."
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"Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper."
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"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."
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"I don't know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic."
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"The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters."
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"Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys."
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"It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered."
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"If one squinted in Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic."
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"Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end."
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"If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own."
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"I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level."
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"The moon glistens in her dreamy eyes as she frolics in the dark forest. She's got wild overgrowing in her bones, and tangles upon tangles of midnight weaving through her long silky hair, this belle of the night."
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"Kenzie took two staggering steps backward, staring at the feeline as if in a daze. "O-kay," she breathed, shaking her head slightly. "A cat. A cat that talks. I'm going crazy." she glanced at me. " Or you slipped something into my drink at the tournament. One or the other."
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