Imagination isn't about escaping the real world. It is a way of building one. And when our imaginations work together, every character on that stage comes alive.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg — The Waste Books
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I think there is a real dirty secret right now, which is that almost every writer is using it. Just, most of them are not saying so.
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