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A morning later, Nancy described her first dream, the first remembered dream of her life. She and Ju...

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Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in your...

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It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

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But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about...

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality...

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into realit...

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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a re...

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My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals desc...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses...

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and s...

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it...

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It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dre...

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The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the sa...

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your n...

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Joseph CampbellThe Power of Myth

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a ...

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a pro...

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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i...

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Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2....

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A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She ...

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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, slee...

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If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Sto...

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Then he dreamed that he was in the open door of a plane several thousand feet above the earth and he...

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Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a wo...

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In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a li...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

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We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and...

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Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

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Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weed...

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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering w...

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Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, e...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you real...

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Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreams...

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Langston HughesThe Collected Poems

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all shar...

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I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

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For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.

Who but lovers dream alike?

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

These wars have been so great, they are forgotten Like the Egyptian dynasts. My confrere In whose th...

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Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up a...

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…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bub...

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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...

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In my dreams, I never have an age.

Her bed felt huge and empty now, and when she slept, she did so with her arm around a pillow. She dr...

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Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream

You don't have to do this," Ronan said."There isn't anything else, man.""There's reality."Kavinsky l...

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Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio qui...

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The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just an...

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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in thei...

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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in...

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle,...

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Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It ca...

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We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of...

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to yo...

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In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dyi...

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti...

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Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of p...

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I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting al...

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There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing th...

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Mark KurlanskyThe Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun...

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Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

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Marsha NormanThe Fortune Teller

I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am conte...

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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christin...

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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dre...

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Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again!For so the night will more than payThe...

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Our real life is not the life we live, and we feel that our deepest, nay, our most intimate thoughts...

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if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and ...

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Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the w...

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In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I’m underneath. I’m crawling, sometim...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the w...

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The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always ...

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The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, tha...

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Patricia A. McKillipFirebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your u...

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