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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.


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JAMES DUVAL The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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MIRA SORVINO When George spotted the pinup girl of his fondest fantasies across that cheesy bar, he had no idea w...
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JANIS JOPLIN Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Voters elect candidates because they understand the issues rather than engage in leftwing fantasies.
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Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More th...
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MARLON BRANDO My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than ...
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ARTHUR KROKER If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the concl...
ARTHUR KOESTLER A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entert...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams ...
ARTHUR MILLER The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
ARTHUR KOESTLER The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on...
ARTHUR WINTER Court... a place where they dispense with justice.
ARTHUR TRAIN Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt...
ARTHUR MILLER If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may no...
WILLIAM ARTHUR The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
ARTHUR BRISBANE We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of...
ARTHUR ASHE Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
ARTHUR BLOCH Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well ar...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop th...
ARTHUR BRISBANE He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR BALFOUR