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"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
"Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.
"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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"Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.
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"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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