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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“These people who expect to be saints in heaven, though they were not on Earth, have ignored the wisdom of the founders of the great religions. This wisdom is that the kingdom of heaven is within you and that you do not go to heaven unless you are already in it. The magic must be wrought by you and you alone. God has no fairy wand to tap the pig and turn it into a swan.

People ignore this. And those who believe in sinners burning in hell are, perhaps, not so much concerned with going to heaven as with being sure that sinners-–others-–roast forever in the flames.”
― phillip jose farmer

“Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.”
― Walter Mosley

“I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.”
― Walter Jon Williams

“To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”
― George Orwell, Essays

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“«Κοσμοπολίτες της καρδιάς, είμαστε πολίτες των χωρών όλων, πατρίδα μας είναι ολόκληρος ο κόσμος και οι άνθρωποι παντού είναι αδέλφια μας· η γη είναι η κοινή κληρονομιά των θνητών, και το ανθρώπινο γένος θα ευτυχήσει, όταν δεν θα υπάρχουν πια ούτε σύνορα ούτε τείχη».”
― ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ ΡΟΔΟΚΑΝΑΚΗΣ

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
― Epictetus

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl