There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings. . Clive Barker
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This quote is probably the most profound in the book. It speaks about the power of imagination and how we can use that to help us in our own life. I think that we need to be creative, we need to be imaginative to help us understand what’s happening in the world today and how to make sense of it.

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