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"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
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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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"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."

"The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know."

"I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far."

"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."

"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."

"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."
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