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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."

"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza."

"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

"Few people have the imagination for reality."

"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."

"Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination."

"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."

"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
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"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given."

"When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."

"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."
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