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For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ... It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand. ↗


— Nelson Algren


#originality #truth #writers #writing #imagination

Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her eyes. Spinal curvature. No chin, mouth like a frog. Young man like a pug. Gazing down at his sweetie with the face of a saint reading the works of God. Hold on, maiden, you've got him. He's your boy. Look out, Puggy, that isn't a maiden you see before you, it's a work of imagination. Nail him, girlie. Nail him to the contract. Fly laddie, fly off with your darling vision before she turns into a frow, who spends all her life thinking of what the neighbours think. ↗


— Joyce Cary


#gulley-jimson #imagination #maidens #pugs #spinal-curvature

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it. ↗


— Irvine Welsh


#political-commentary #politics #posterity #power #resistance

It was an amazing garden like nothing Will had ever seen. Everything was covered in snow and glittering ice, the winding paths, the clusters of trees and what looked like mazes. And here and there blue fountains splashed and a river meandered between them, though the water didn’t look like water at all but like a stream of sapphires. And strangest of all was how see-through everything looked, trees showing through trees, the river showing through heaps of snow. It was all like a daydream, half imagination, half reality. But Will knew that it was real. ↗


— Dew Pellucid


#the-sound-and-the-echoes #winter #imagination

It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason. ↗


— Debbie Macomber


#crying #debbie-macomber #emotions #feelings #the-trouble-with-angels

I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance. ↗


— J. Matthew Nespoli


#depression #money #possessions #wealth #imagination

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven. ↗


— C. JoyBell C.


#empowerment #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #offenses

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery. ↗


— Peggy Kopman-Owens


#adventure #mystery #suspense #thriller #travel

A man is never alone when he is with his imagination. ↗


— Spencer LaVyrle


#imagination

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief. ↗


— Rebecca Murphy


#humerous #imagination #plays #theater #imagination






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