Fantasy
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Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three (which are subgenres of speculative fiction).
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- All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
- Sir Max Beerbohm, in Zuleika Dobson (1911)
- 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, in The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.
- Evan Harris Walker, in The Physics of Consciousness : The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life (2000)
- Fantasy literature, in its broadest defintion from "Cinderella" to "Beowulf" to Stephen Donaldson, is literature which makes deliberate use of something known to be impossible.
- Tom Shippey, in "Introduction" to The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994)
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- Fantasy is literature for teenagers.
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
- You wish to see the distant realms? Very well. But know this first, the places you will visit, the places you will see, do not exist. For there are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this one, worlds of the human imagination. Their reality, or lack of reality is not important. What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power, provide refuge and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. Do you understand?"
- Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
- To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
- All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we to play of imagination is incalculable.
- We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
- 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 and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Everyone must have a fantasy.
