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"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
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"I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams."
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"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams."
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"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."
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"In a dream you are never eighty."
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"A goal without a date is just a dream."
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"I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true."
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"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way."
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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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"Everything happens because of dreams."
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Explore more quotes by James Merrill


"Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication."
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"Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem."
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"At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw."
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"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images."
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"Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays."
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?"
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"In life, there are no perfect affections."
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"The simplest science book is over my head."
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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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