Fantasy proverbs

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◆ Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

- Dr. Seuss99

◆ Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

- Lloyd Alexander99

◆ Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ When I was your age, television was called books.

- William Goldman99

◆ It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

- Lauren Oliver99

◆ The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

- J.M. Barrie99

◆ Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

- Patrick Rothfuss99

◆ 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. Seuss99

◆ Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

- Elizabeth Bowen98

◆ Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

- Terry Goodkind98

◆ If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

- David Eddings98

◆ There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

- Ralph Fiennes98