#imagination

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do. ↗

— Mary Warnock

#perception #experience

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down. ↗

— Phil Harris

#days #development #down #experience #gone

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror #imagination #dreams

I think our generation has been called to apathy just as our grandparents were called to defeat fascism and the baby boomers were called to get divorced and fuck around for most of their adult lives before bankrupting the entire goddamn country when they retire. But we have the chance to do something really special here. Imagine a world where people didn’t care enough to go to war over anything. Where some guy gets up in the morning and says, “I know God wants me to kill the infidels and keep gay people from marrying each other, but I just don’t give a shit. I’m going back to bed.” It would be paradise on earth. This is our mission. I think we can make it happen, but I really don’t care either way. And that’s called hope. ↗

— Paul Neilan

#imagination

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#memory #see #imagination

Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need to be righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assist the unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere, and effectively organize for socio-economic alteration wihtout the organization being taken over by dullards, the people who, ironically, are best suited to serving organized causes since they seldom have anything more imaginative to do and, restricted by tunnel vision, probably wouldn't do it if they had. 151 ↗

— Tom Robbins

#imagination

...how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn’t even imagine. ↗

— Laurie J. Marks

#fantasy-fiction #warfare #imagination

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#imagination

What are you giving him?" Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would capture his imagination and not let go. " "Ooh, Nintendo, how lovely! ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#nintendo #imagination