“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Stellar wars are a sort of parallel reality in the filmic imagination, terrestrial wars are still today a harsh daily reality.”
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Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941Related quotes
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Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it,
They never touch it: consider what an explosion
Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world
If any mind for a moment touch truth.
