Nora Ephron: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women, Knopf Publishing, New York, 1975
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
“Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.”
“To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”
"Dreaming of War," The Nation (15 October 2001)
Context: For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
“Without a name and nothing to be desired,
If only imagined but imagined well.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
As quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 194
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