"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on romance and romanticism   

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

Disraeli, Isaac on romance and romanticism
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"Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man."

Brookner, Anita on romance and romanticism
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"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."

Brookner, Anita on romance and romanticism
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"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."

Joubert, Joseph on words
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"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America."

Jordan, June on words
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"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

Ibsen, Henrik on words
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"All words are part true and part false."

Kahn, Master on words   

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."

Keynes, John Maynard on words   

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on words
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on words
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"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."

Plutarch on words   

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."

Proverb, Chinese on words
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"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."

Haldane, John B. S. on words   

"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings."

Fripp, Patricia on words
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"Words are all we have."

Beckett, Samuel on words   

"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."

Bremer, Frederika on words
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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Byron, Lord on words
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

Chase, Stuart on words
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"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."

Chazal, Malcolm De on words   

"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."

Connolly, Cyril on words
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

Eliot, T. S. on words   

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."

Ellison, Ralph on words
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"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."

France, Anatole on words
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"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."

Thorndike, Edward on words
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"An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen."

Twain, Mark on words   

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Artaud, Antonin on creativity
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"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Bresson, Robert on creativity
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"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

Doctorow, E. L. on creativity
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"Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea."

Dorfsman, Lou on creativity
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"Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are."

Goble, Frank on creativity
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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm."

Henle, Mary on creativity   

"True creativity often starts where language ends."

Koestler, Arthur on creativity
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"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."

Valery, Paul on creativity
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