Drink from the cup of ice, drink from the cup of fire

"Fantasy gives us the colors. Fantasy is strong emotion and red wine and dreams and visions. It's life imagined more intensely, and lived more intensely, vicariously as we read about it in our own lives, that we can experience great loves and great tragedies, and do things we would never do in real life. It's the whole reason I think people read, and particularly when they read fiction. The non-reader just lives one life, while the reader lives a thousand lives, does amazing things: climbs mountains, goes to other planets, explores the bottom of the sea, loves a hundred women/loves a hundred men, lives and dies, and gives birth to children and conquers kingdoms, and all of that you experience only in fiction (most of us anyway)."

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