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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."

"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

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

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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