"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
-Cyril Connolly
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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.“
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"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."
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-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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