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“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
“Turning imagination into matter is the most beautiful an fulfilling challenge of all. I was about to find out this is also my purpose and meaning.”
“Imagination can take you to any place of interest.”
“Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.”
“Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination.”
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
“The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.”
“The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creatin...”
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
“Music helps us drift away to places of tranquility, happiness, sadness, & imagination.”
“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must ...”
“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn...”
“When People Say How Can you Watch that, I reply Saying It Seems Your Imagination is Not as Good as mine Then Leave.”
“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.”
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a profound narrative that makes sense of lifes conflicts and misunderstan...”
“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the rain...”
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, ”
