"It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination."
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"If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination."
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"Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine"
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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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"When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination."
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
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"You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination."
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"Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it."
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"When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl."
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"The mind contains all possibilities."
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"It takes no imagination to live within your means."
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"To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination."
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control."
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"Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts"
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