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"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"

"It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth."

"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."

"What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk."

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."

"Dream's elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue.."

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."

"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it."

"Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

"Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification."

"The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."

"Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."
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