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"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem."

"I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't."

"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."

"I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next."

"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!"

"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."

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

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"One thinks of nothing,' he continued; 'the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes."
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"Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate. An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse."

"Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others."

"A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love."

"The Romans construed Jesus Chris's crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself, he never betrayed his mission and he never corrupted the ideas that God wants us to live by. The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humaneness. There is no reason to try to kill it because it will triumph ultimately."

"Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."

"When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions-be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy."

"There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds."

"A man has a hard time feeling fulfilled when he lives a life that does not serve a purpose that is more than himself."
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