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Imagination Quotes
"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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"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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"Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the "Rose of Fire."
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"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."
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"I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another."
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"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."
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"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream."
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"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
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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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"The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity, and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity."
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"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
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"One thinks of nothing,' he continued; 'the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes."
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"The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction."
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"Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing."
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"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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"Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
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"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
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"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
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"She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world."
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"Your imagination, your will, your conscience " these are almighty " they make you achieve things that no human being has ever achieved in history."
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"The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination."
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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."
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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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"I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one."
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"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"
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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 degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"She has no imagination and that means no compassion."
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"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
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"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
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"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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"Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.-Raphael"
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"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
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"The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality."
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
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"Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so much better than the film."
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"She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination."
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"Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time."
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"It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin."
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"Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes."
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"It's okay, Ms Rainn, you were simply lost in your imagination."
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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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"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
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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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"To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves."
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"He draws a line under his conclusions. Says, 'Gregory, what should I do about the great worm?' 'Send a commission against it, sir,' the boy says. 'It must be put down.' He gives his son a long look. 'You do know it's Arthur Cobbler's tales?' Gregory gives him a long look back. 'Yes, I do know.' He sounds regretful. 'But it makes people so happy when I believe them."
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