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"To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."
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"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."
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"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."
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"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."
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"Dream is the realm most people live their life."
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"Heinlein's Rules for Writers - Rule One: You Must Write. Rule Two: Finish What Your Start. Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order. Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market. Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold."
Writing
"I'm too much old-timer to be rude to a woman no matter what - they have so much of what we have none of."
Respect
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
Intelligence
"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."
History
"The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens."
Compassion
"For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers."
Imagination
"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
Culture
"Civilians are like beans, you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy.But you can't buy fighting spirit."
Strength
"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
Politics
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Life
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