"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
-Ishmael Reed
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"I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor."
-Ishmael Reed
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-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."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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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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