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As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people. ↗


— Michael Richardson


#peret #stories #surrealism #imagination

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them ↗


— Maurice Sendak


#fantasy #fear #imagination #life #imagination

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. ↗


— Dashama Konah Gordon


#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspiring #spirituality #yoga

His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant's mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and mementoes competing for space with books on every subject imaginable, from Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology to Illustrated British Ballads and A History of Indian Philosophy. "What are you reading at the moment?' asked May. "Batman," said Bryant. "The drawings are terribly good. ↗


— Christopher Fowler


#humor #reading #imagination

Your terror tastes just as I imagined, Elizabeth,” Fear whispers into my ear. ↗


— Kelsey Sutton


#imagination

Retirement is a time of redefinition, particularly in these days when so many of the rules and expectations seem to have been revised. Some may imagine long days of lounging at poolside or on a porch, but that's far from the reality. Many retirees are busier than ever and might come to wonder how they ever had time to hold down a full-time job. ↗


— Christopher Abts


#imagination

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. ↗


— Dr. Seuss


#inspirational #life #self-determination #self-reliance #inspirational

L’imagination, l’illumination, la création, sans lesquelles le progrès des sciences n’aurait pas été possible, n’entraient dans la science qu’en catimini : elles n’étaient pas logiquement repérables, et toujours épistémologiquement condamnables. On en parlait dans les biographies des grands savants, jamais dans les manuels et les traités, dont pourtant la sombre compilation, comme les couches souterraines de charbon, était constituée par la fossilisation de la compression de ce qui, au premier chef, avait été fantaisies, hypothèses, prolifération d’idée, invention, découvertes. ↗


— Edgar Morin


#science #imagination

Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.' 'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly. ↗


— E.C. Myers


#pop-culture #imagination

John Matthews' title, 'Gawain, Knight of the Goddess', was confirmation that I wasn't imagining the many layers of Gawain, the court of King Arthur, and most assuredly Gawain's role as a Protector and Champion of the Mother Goddess ↗


— Virginia Chandler


#arthurian-legend #gawain #green-knight #imagination






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