#magi

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cities #city-life #fictional-london #history #life

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were. ↗

— Maryanne O'Hara

#imagination

There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#imagination

Mă străduiesc adesea să mi-l imaginez, pentru că nu-l ţin minte precis cum arăta. Zadarnic. îmi apare în faţa ochilor doar o umbră cu mici amănunte, disparate, cunoscute, apropiate, dar o imagine completă nu se încheagă niciodată. ↗

— Aureliu Busuioc

#dragoste #iubire #singur-in-fata-dragostei #imagination

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

Real truths, as opposed to imagined ones, are able to stand up to rigorous debate and questioning . ↗

— Jeffrey Small

#imagination

It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#imagination

If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless decree. These young smart alecks see it, and they immediately imagine some fatal result and come running to the rescue. They start trying to mend things, straighten things out, patch things up and untangle them. And so instead of using their energy to build their own vision of the future, instead of trying to put their irresponsible, destructive fantasies into action, our malcontents had to roll up their sleeves and start untangling what the minsters had knotted up. And there's always a lot of work to untangling! So they untangle and untangle, drenched in sweat, wearing their nerves to shreds, running around, patching things up here and there, and in all this rush and overwork, in this whirlwind, their fantasies slowly evaporate from their hot heads. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuściński

#imagination

Everyone is free to imagine that which could never come to pass. That is the promise of worship. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #imagination #worship #funny