“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
“To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.”
— Gillian Flynn, book Sharp Objects
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Dreaming like a love-adept
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