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Imagination Quotes
"There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination."
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"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
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"... so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and of its surroundings, taking their proper shapes and growing solid, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea."
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"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
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"Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible."
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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
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"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
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"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
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"I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination."
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"Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet."
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"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
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"A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming."
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"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."
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"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions."
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"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
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"I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
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"Few people have the imagination for reality."
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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."
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"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."
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"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."
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"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations."
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"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world."
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"He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only refuge left for him."
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"A pier is a disappointed bridge, yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel."
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"Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat."
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"We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here."
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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
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"You always have to defend the imagination against idiots."
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"I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have."
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"This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.Not there, because they loved it, it behavedas though it were. They always left some space.And in that clear unpeopled space they savedit lightly reared its head, with scarce a traceof not being there. They fed it, not with corn,but only with the possibilityof being. And that was able to confersuch strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.within the silver mirror and in her."
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"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will."
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"Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."
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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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"Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points."
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"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
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"The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart."
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him..."
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"Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds."
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"There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things."
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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
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"You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers," Pris said, "made it up."
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"Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world."
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"Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. [' Labyrinth of the mind ']"
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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."
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"Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me."
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