"I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it."
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"That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
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"Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination."
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"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us."
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"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."
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"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
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"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease."
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"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."
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"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
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"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen."
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"A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination."
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"Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be."
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"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."
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"Worry is a waste of imagination."
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"The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library."
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"Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us."
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"The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."
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"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations."
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"If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed."
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