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Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade. - Dolly Parton

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist