#imagination

Live out of your imagination, not your history. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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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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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. ↗

— Anatole France

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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. ↗

— Frank Tallis

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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ↗

— Henry George

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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ↗

— Sam Levenson

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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