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    To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.

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    When he sat on the Makepeace veranda, it was as if he'd gone to another country

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    To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. — Jane Austen

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    Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose?

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    When I'm sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.

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    When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him, a glimmer and a glint over those eyes, he knew how the world worked, and took pleasure in its wickedness. He would give a dime or two to those sitting on the street, he would tell them things like: "It won't get any better," and "Might as well use this to buy your next fix," and finally "It's better to die high than to live sober," His suit was pressed nicely, with care and respect, like the kind a corpse wears, he'd say that was his way of honoring the dead, of always being ready for the oncoming train, I liked him, he never wore a fake smile and he was always ready to tell a story about how and when "We all wake up alone," he said once, "Oftentimes even when sleeping next to someone, we wake up before them and they are still asleep and suddenly we are awake, and alone." I didn't see him for a few days, a few days later it felt like it'd been weeks, those weeks drifted apart from one another, like leaves on a pond's surface, and became like months. And then I saw him and I asked him where he'd been, he said, "I woke up alone one day, just like any other, and I decided I didn't like it anymore.

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    When people read, they hear voices and see images in their head. This production is total synesthesia and something close to madness. A great book is an hallucinated IMAX film for one. The author had a feeling, which he turned into words, and the reader gets a feeling from those words—maybe it’s the same feeling; maybe it’s not. As Peter Mendelsund wrote in What We See When We Read, a book is a coproduction. A reader both performs the book and attends the performance. She is conductor, orchestra, and audience. A book, whether nonfiction of fiction, is an “invitation to daydream.

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    whistle your soundtrack, daydream your future

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    You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.

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    ...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

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    You never really know about the people who daydream of killing you.

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    Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections. (<"Lost dreams")

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    A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

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    A daydream is an evasion.

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    A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

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    A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.

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    An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

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    You're my hero, Rhage." Ears pricked up, Rhage watched her closely. Anything she said was important to him, and how lovely was that? "I always thought I'd grow up and find my own hero." Rainie grimaced at herself in the mirror. Obviously she shouldn't have wasted her youth on reading and daydreaming. "But I gave up; I'm not holding out for a hero anymore.

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    Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

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    Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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    How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

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    He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

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    I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

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    I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

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    I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

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    Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

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    I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

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    If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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    If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.

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    Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

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    I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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    I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

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    It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

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    I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

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    It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

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    I live my daydreams in music.

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    I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

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    Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

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    Prepare while others are daydreaming.

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    She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

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    The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

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    Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

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    There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

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    I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

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    Vision without execution is daydreaming.

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    When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

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    We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

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    Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

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    The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

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    A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.