#imaginative

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. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. ↗

— Alexander Chase

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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God is only a great imaginative experience. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative. ↗

— John Sayles

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

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