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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.

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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...more

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What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

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Judgement is poverty.

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Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in ord...more

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It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

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Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. En...more

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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.