Lucy Maud Montgomery on the Indefatigability of Dreams

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), The Road to Yesterday

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C. S. Lewis on the Insatiable Desire

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

~ C. S. Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963)

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Joseph Campbell on Being Alive

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

~ Joseph Campbell

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Cassandra Clare on Being Influenced by Reading

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

~ Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

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James Baldwin on How Reading Connects Us to Others

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

~ James Baldwin

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Lloyd Alexander on Fantasy and Reality

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”

~ Lloyd Alexander

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