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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the proper

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. – Bela Lugosi

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldnt it be interesting if… And then do it. – Duane Michals

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Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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