“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.” DifferentSchoolPastFantasyLandSourceColdEuropeTownsNostalgiaHillsClassicItalianSiteExileAcademyAbbey Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.” FantasySourceDraws Author:Terry Pratchett
“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.” BelieveRealWould BeGuyFantasyStreetsMilitarySourceLowsAreasFruitSuitsArticlesCharlatansMilitary Experience Author:Scott Ritter
“Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.” NeedsVisionFantasySourceBecomingRoseOptimisticCombatCynicismAssociatesUtopiaMonstrousImprobableGrotesqueCoerce Author:Emile M. Cioran