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Mary Wesley

"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."

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"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."

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"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

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"In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons."

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"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."

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"Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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"It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination."

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"You are only limited by your imagination."

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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

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"A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring."
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