"Nature's imagination far surpasses our own."
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"I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!"
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"Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination."
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"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it."
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"All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things"
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"If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite."
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"I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day."
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"Small towns harbor small imaginations."
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"The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."
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"I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost."
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"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."
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"Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet."
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"I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be."
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"Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid."
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"For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world."
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"The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement."
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"MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION."
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"Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet"
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"Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination."
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"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
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