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"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
"Imagination is phenomenal."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."
"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."
"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
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"They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning."
"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."
"The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature."
"It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it."
"Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled."
"When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around."
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
"The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary."
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