#magi

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

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #i am #imagination #interested #life

Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#cultures #existed #indian #live #magical

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#happy #i #imagine #library #library book

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#decided #dragon #i #i always #imagination

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #ceased #concern #course #imagine

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#because #freedom #happen #harry #harry potter

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. ↗

— Judy Garland

#born #cast #death #dreams #fed