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Imagination Quotes
"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
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"Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times."
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"Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds."
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"Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it."
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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"Dreams are our only geography-our native land."
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"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
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"George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create."
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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
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"If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud."
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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
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"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."
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"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
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"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."
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"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied."
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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
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"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
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"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."
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"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
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"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. 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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"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
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"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
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"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
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"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
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"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination."
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"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
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"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation."
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"Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
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"Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive."
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"When you dream, you activate the possibility of what some call impossible."
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"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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