{"quotes":[{"text":"Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","anxiety","belief","brain","bravery","chimera","cognition","courage","daydreaming","death","dream","facade","failure","fake","fantasy","fear","fearful","foreshadowing","frightening","future","hate","horror","imagination","irrational","irrational-belief","life","life-events","loss","love","make-believe","natural","nightmare","pain","past","poverty","present","psychology","rational","rational-belief","reality","scary","solitude","suffering","supernatural","superstition","terror","torture"],"id":73099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.","author":"Peter Partner","tags":["chimera","despair","fantasy","illusion","scepticism"],"id":270527,"author_id":"Peter+Partner"},{"text":"Good Samaritans: Truth, justice and the American way–for them it wasn't only a comic book code; it was a way of life. It was admirable, courageous, and inconvenient as shit. -Stefan, CHIMERA.","author":"Rob Thurman","tags":["action-thriller","basilisk","chimera","sardonic-humor","science-fiction","stefan-korsak","the-korsak-brothers"],"id":434296,"author_id":"Rob+Thurman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}