#imagination

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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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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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

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It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#attitude #choice #imagination #inspiration #life

I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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