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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #2
    John Lennon
    “I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
    John Lennon

  • #3
    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #4
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #5
    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #6
    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #7
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #8
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
    Vladimir Nabokov (translator)

  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #10
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
    Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

  • #12
    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    Criss Jami

  • #13
    Beatrix Potter
    “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #14
    Roy T. Bennett
    “One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #15
    Allen Ginsberg
    “Whoever controls the media, the
    images, controls the culture.”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #16
    Warren Ellis
    “If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”
    Warren Ellis

  • #17
    Marcus Brigstocke
    “If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
    Marcus Brigstocke

  • #18
    Jacques Derrida
    “I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”
    Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida

  • #19
    “More often than not, labels dehumanise people by reducing them to lazy stereotypes.”
    Francesca Martínez, What the **** is Normal?!



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