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Imagination Quotes
"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
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"And at 3am you sit near the window and wonder if there is magic... because all you need are some fairies to take your pain away and help you sleep... you take a book to read... you take a pen and a paper to write...you cling on some music that might just make you fall asleep... yet nothing helps... another sleepless night and all you want is the dawn to break soon."
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"Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation."
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"I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth."
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"He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"You will never really get, how really everything works in my world. How the colour of the sky changes every now and then, and how deep the sea gets in there. How volcanoes and rivers flow together, and how demons and angels fall in love in there. How stormy a night can get and how bright a day can be. How ruined the home is, but how vibrant the feelings are in there."
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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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"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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"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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"Yes, I'm a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds."
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"In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know."
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"If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams,then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication."
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"As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young."
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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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"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."
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"I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future."
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"If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets."
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"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
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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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"Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use, time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space - for wilderness and public space - must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space."
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"I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next."
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"I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age."
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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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"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
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"Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are."
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"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
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"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."
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"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
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"In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling."
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"There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine."
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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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"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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"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."
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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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"I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body."
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"Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human."
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"To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it."
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"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future."
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"It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth."
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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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"At the alpha level, your imagination acts powerfully on your subconsciousness mind and therefore your imaginings are powerfully effective in producing the desired result. It is believed that our subconscious mind represents nearly 90 percent of our mental capacity, which is why influencing your subconscious mind produces such powerful effects."
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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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"Flashlight beams danced crazily."
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"Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming."
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"With the wings of imagination, don't be afraid to fly."
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