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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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Trapped by reality, freed by imagination. – Nicolas Manetta

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. – Franklin P. Adams

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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. – Terence McKenna

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