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Joseph Addison

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

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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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"Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language."

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"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

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Amber Hurdle

"In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination."

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Amber Hurdle

"You are only limited by your imagination."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

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"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
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"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
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"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
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"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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