12 quotes
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The dream has to be translated into reality.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
By shutting out the outside world, drugs place one not only in confrontation with the dreaming self, but also ones nightmares.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school. A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty were inseparable from civilization.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
Most fiction writers uses dreams decoratively without relating them to daily life, but the contemporary writer is becoming more expert at detecting the influence of one upon the other.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.
The Novel of the Future (1969)
The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.
The Novel of the Future (1969)