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"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."
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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."
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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."
Literature


"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
Imagination


"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"
Ethics


"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"
Relationship


"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."
Work


"Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet."
Life


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order-willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living."
Structure


"I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."
Awakening


"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."
Confidence


"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."
Philosophy
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