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I feel that everyone has a blurred area, which is a border between their imagination and what actually happens, and I am very interested in that border.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

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In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.

Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers (1982)

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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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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