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Quote by Alexander Cockburn
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. – Alexander Cockburn

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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more youre forced back on your own imagination. – Stephen King

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. – Alexander Chase

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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