fantasy quotes

: When you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

- Edward Franklin, III Albee
JERRY1958  On pornographic playing cards. The Zoo Story.

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer† You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.

-Janice Galloway
  Foreign Parts, ch.7.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
  Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughter- in-Law,1'.