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William Hazlitt

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."

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"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."

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

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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

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"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."

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"My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men."

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"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

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"Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."

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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

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"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."

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