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"My sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Imagination, Dream, Escape, Nature

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"My sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ..."

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"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."

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"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."

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"Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company."

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"I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there."

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"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."

William Warburton, English Critic

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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."

"Our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us."

"Fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges-icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested."

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