Quote by Iris Murdoch
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. - Iris

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. – Iris Murdoch

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. – Iris Murdoch

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The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. – Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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When a fantasy turns you on, youre obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. – Stewart Brand

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. – Alfred North Whitehead

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. – George MacDonald

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