#tory

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#insanity #sanity #short-story #imagination

He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament. ↗

— Carol K. Carr

#mystery #politics #faith

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#imagination #subjunctive #imagination

The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell. ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#writing #imagination

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. ↗

— Anne Burack Sayre

#birthday #children-s #delightful #elementary-school #funny

Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the addition of new dramatic sequences; the emphasis accorded to one figure or another in the recital; and the degree of enthusiam, of coherence, the narrator gives to his or her account. ↗

— Robert Coles

#plot #story #imagination

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#break #exciting #first #grow #more

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#air #am #copy #exists #fashion

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #even #history #iron #jewish

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale... ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#christmas #holiday #holidays #nutcracker #nuts