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"With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe."

"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."

"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."

"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."

"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."

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

"The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions."
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"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

"You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones."

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
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