Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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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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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
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Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
