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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
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"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
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"It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth."
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"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
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"To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not."
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"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Art
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
Man
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
Art
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."
Life
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
Experience
"No man is good enough to be another's master."
Man
"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
Love
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
Imagination
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
Future
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
Life
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