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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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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – 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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Fantasy

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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Fantasy

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

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Fantasy

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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Fantasy

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Indigo shadows encourage tantalizing gossip in an orchard, while a tall redwood throws poems on the forest floor. The nightlife of trees. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire

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Weve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. – Bill Gates

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What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him. – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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