#book

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. ↗

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating. ↗

— John Matteson

#creativity #imagination #life #people #possibility

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life. ↗

— Mark Miller

#culture #imagination

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently. ↗

— Brian Jacques

#god #imagination #imagination

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#inspirational #inspirational

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#inspirational #inspirational

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#inspirational #inspirational

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #grade #had #house #i

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #inspirational

Lügen schmerzen, die Wahrheit jedoch bewegt uns. ↗