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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly w

The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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In Dreams… well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. – Neil Jordan

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I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. – Dolly Parton

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Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you dont do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals. – John H. Johnson

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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. – Ethan A. Hitchcock

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