Imagination Quotes
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I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
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I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
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I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
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The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
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If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
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The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
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It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.
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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed, The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more Than a delight measure or a dance; For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
