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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the ch...more

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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

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The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not p...more

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This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and...more

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In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.

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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.