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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

- Jessamyn West

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

- Paul Gauguin

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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

- Edmund Burke

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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

- L. Frank Baum

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

- Francis Bacon

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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- Jack London

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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

- Orison Swett Marden

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

- Lewis Carroll

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