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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination ↗


— Allen Ginsberg


#imagination

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.' ↗


— John Green


#paper-towns #imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." [What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929 (p. 17)] ↗


— Albert Einstein


#inspiration #knowledge #limitations #imagination

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. ↗


— Mary Boykin Chesnut


#i #i think #journal #like #me

Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face. ↗


— Maureen Johnson


#maureen-johnson #the-jubilee-express #imagination

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. ↗


— Mary Chesnut


#i #i do #myself #regrets #vain

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are. ↗


— Richard P. Feynman


#imagination

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost. ↗


— Toba Beta


#darkness #imagination #knowledge #navigation #spirit

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story. ↗


— J.K. Rowling


#j-k-rowling #experience

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. ↗


— L.M. Montgomery


#fantasy #imagination #shadows #writing #imagination






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