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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."

"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."

"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."


"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."


"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."


"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."


"This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but assoon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her lifemiserable."


"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."
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