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Mason Cooley

"Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts."

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"Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book."

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