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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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters wer...
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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...
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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...
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my f...
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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...
