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"It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon."
"The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ."
"You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown."
"You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist."
"All i have in my life is my imagination"
"The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere."
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
"You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination."
"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that"
"I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy."
"my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me."
"The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination."
"An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets."
"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
"Imagination is the beginning of reality."
"I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not."
"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality."
"I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains."
"Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary."
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
