Posts tagged Imagination
I am no bird, and no net ensnares me;
I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Address at The University of the Arts
For all the artists out there, take some creative advice from this tried and true word warrior and see where it leads you. You never know what can happen if you only give yourself the chance to try!
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“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Photo by Kyle Thompson)
I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
George Orwell, Why I Write (via playpretend)
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Jungle Book by David Fleck
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But all I could think about now, as night fell, was how much you can love made-up people and how much you can miss them.
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If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
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