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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seeming

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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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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

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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 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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