Ishmael Reed Quotes
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
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Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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I started writing my own things when I was about 8.
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I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
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So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
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With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.
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I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
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Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars They need this instead Imagination, suffering, light and love And care for every human being You never steal, you never kill You are a part of hope and life The revolution goes from man to man And heart to heart And I sense when I look at the stars That we are children of life Death is small
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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
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I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.
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I'm single, and I hate dating.
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Taking products designed for large companies and then retrofitting them to work for smaller businesses is a recipe for failure. It would be like a bus manufacturer changing the color of the bus from yellow to black, and then calling it a car.
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
