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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
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"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"Few people have the imagination for reality."
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"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
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"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
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"A liar should have a good memory."
Memory
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
Nature
"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Defeat
"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
Work
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
Effort
"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."
Family
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