"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

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"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."

"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time."

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"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."

"In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival."

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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."