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"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

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

"How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all."

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

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

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

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."

"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."

"Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress."

"God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing."

"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."

"The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer."

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
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