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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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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

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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 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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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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