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“Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.”
“(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this wo...”
“Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled,And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.”
“A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely,...”
“An admirable line of Pablo Nerudas, 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 ...”
“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 m...”
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that thi...”
“The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.”
“If I stay. If I live. Its up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. Its not up to the doctors. Its not up to the absentee angels. Its not even up to God who, if ...”
“You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!”
“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 in...”
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
“Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.”
“The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be sur...”
“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space...”
“We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.”
“If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who,...”
