#imaginative

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#both #culture #essence #imaginative #limits

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#fiction #imaginative #income #income tax #only

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#clear #dejan-stojanovic #hard-hearted #imagination #imaginative

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ideals #imaginative #possible #understanding #which

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#child #children #imagination #imaginative #into

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#chicago #columbia #creative #harvard #imaginative

One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative. ↗

— Jesse Thompson

#life #imagination

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#difficult #embrace #few #few people #fiction

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ↗