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Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.

— Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power (2004)

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A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common.

I think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine.

I also read poetry—from Pablo Neruda to Warsan Shire—fairly regularly, and it keeps my sense of what words can do wide open and my sense of beauty awake.

The books I write often feel like the books I wanted to read, but they didn't exist, so I brought them into being.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey … but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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