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“I didn’t think you were real for a long time,” I confess. “I thought you were someone I’d dreamed up.”“A dream worth reliving every night for ten years?” he asks, chuckling and slowly loosening his...”
“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight was presently afterwards deliver'd of a Child without a Head. So lives the ...”
“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, ...”
“I want everyday magic.”
“If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead.”
“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality w...”
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories a...”
“Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.”
“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mer...”
“Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me.”
“A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.”
“When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.”
“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be giv...”
“That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or te...”
“No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder el...”
“Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.”
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
“Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.”
“Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
