"The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression."
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"Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.“
-Julianna Baggott
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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-Francis Cabot Lowell
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