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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy. ↗

— Jay Carney

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I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities. ↗

— Leslie Caron

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

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Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? ↗

— William Vickrey

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Originality is really important. ↗

— Jim Carrey

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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ↗

— Angela Carter

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