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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."
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"How crazy it would be if the moon did spin and the earth stood still and the sun went dim!How absolutely ludicrous if snakes could walk and kids could fly and mimes did talk!How silly it would be if the nights were tan and the mornings green and the sun cyan!How totally ridiculous if horses chirped and spiders sang and ladies burped!How shocking it would be if the dragons ruled and the knights were daft but the fish were schooled!How utterly preposterous if rain were dry and snowflakes warm and real men cried!I love to just imagineall the lows as heights,and the salty, sweet,and our lefts as rights.Perhaps it is incredibleand off the hook,but it all makes sensein a storybook!"
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"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."
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"If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip."
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"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."
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"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"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."
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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."
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"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
Change
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Work
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
Time
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
Cause
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
Heroism
"Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."
God
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
Nation
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
Life
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Success
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