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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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – 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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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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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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When a fantasy turns you on, youre obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. – Stewart Brand

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. – Lord Byron

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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression. – Allen J. Boone

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette. – Ray Comfort

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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. – George Arliss

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