Lord Dunsany

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#dreams

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#experience #getting-older #youth #age

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#imagination #memories #writing #imagination

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#effect #large #like #logic #loses

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ↗

— Lord Dunsany

#large #man #night #small #small thing