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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

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You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.

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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in ord...more

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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. En...more

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Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

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The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not p...more