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"The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."
"A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life."
"Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity."
"To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers."
"Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled."
"I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been."
"There's no place for impractical dreamers around here."
"Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure."
"There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true."
"Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer."
"The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do."
"I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life."
"Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots"
"The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers."
"[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind."
"Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!"
"But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer."
"Dreams age faster than dreamers."
"Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries."
"All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak"
