#imagination

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. ↗

— Emile Coue

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When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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