#fantastic

i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home. ↗

— Jenny Han

#lovely #wonderful #love

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to a medium outside the neurotic terrain. This polarization can be found in any memorable short story, as if the author, wanting to rid himself of his creature as soon and as absolutely as possible, exorcises it the only way he can: by writing it. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#fantasy #genre #horror #story #writers

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#fantasy #genre #horror #story #writers

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. ↗

— André Breton

#fantastique #fantasy #surrealism #surreal

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#fantastique #fantasy #realism #reality #surrealism

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#biggest #dollars #equipment #fantastic #half

It's really fantastic because families can come to my shows and they all like it. It's really weird. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#come #families #fantastic #like #really

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. ↗

— Xun Zi

#fantastic #fundamental #harmony #human #integral

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price. ↗

— Harry Browne

#free #get #go #identify #may

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#everything #fantastic #get #inappropriate #just