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"Mr. Freeman sighs. 'No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!"
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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

"Your imagination, your will, your conscience " these are almighty " they make you achieve things that no human being has ever achieved in history."

"The limits of your imagination create the boundaries of your world."

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

"Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!"

"Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind."

"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."

"Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me nowto remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, halffancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it wasfolded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I wascomparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise."

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

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"Me: 'All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."

"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."

"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."

"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."

"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."

"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."

"There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts."

"The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose."
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