“But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn’t done before.” 

― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

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“Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they’re shy.” 

― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

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“One man’s observation is another man’s closed book or flight of fancy.”

– Willard Van Orman Quine

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“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

– Edgar Allan Poe

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“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

– Jean Paul

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“Oh, when I was in love with you,

And miles around they’ll say that I

Am quite myself again.” 

― A.E. Housman

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