"If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?"

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Interesting Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Interesting Life Quotes

“My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.”
“Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.”
“Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.”
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”

Source : Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.115, Anchor
“In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.”

Source : Song: In Christ Alone
“A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.”
“We couldn't live without comedy.”
“Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers.”

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