Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.
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MAGGIE GALLAGHER Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horro... NANCY A. COLLINS All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those ... JOHN F. KENNEDY The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—wh... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing... ARCHIBALD MACLEISH All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake t... THOMAS E. LAWRENCE War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left. ANDREW ASHLING There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ... SARAH NOFFKE We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have... 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ATTICUS POETRY Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorr... NEALE DONALD WALSCH And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being ... KAHLIL GIBRAN I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice.... MURIEL RUKEYSER Only the minds of those who do not have family values. Will condemn a family as a criminal for choos... HAMLET GARCIA And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety fro... KAHLIL GIBRAN We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD For those of you who have family's that love you, help you and support you you are greatly blessed. ... CRISTABEL MICHAELS Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but ... 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PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo... PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ... PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is. PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se... PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed. PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv... PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ... PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl... PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char... PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ... PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ... PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec... PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything. PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career. PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i... PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,... PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible. PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent... PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac... PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would... PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall... PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney... PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ... PATRICIA IRELAND