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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."

"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."

"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

"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."

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

"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."

"Dream is the realm most people live their life."

"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
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"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."

"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."

"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."
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