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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

-John Updike

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...plus the nightmares of things that never happen, the narrowmindness of our ambitions and perhaps to overestimate them. I don't understand why we have dreams, but does that matter for the universe at large? Things just are!

By Cathy Sander (not verified) on 30 Jan 2010 #permalink