Quotes About Imagination

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Sentado sozinho no escuro, assistindo ao programa em meu laptop, sempre imaginava que eu vivia naquela casa quente e bem iluminada, e que aquelas pessoas sorridentes e compreensivas eram a minha família. Imaginava que não havia nada tão errado no mundo que não pudéssemos resolver até o final de um único episódio de meia hora (ou talvez em dois, se fosse algo muito sério).

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

She grinned. "Don't you want to build a huge interstellar spaceship, load it full of videogames, junk food, and comfy couches, and then get the hell out of here?" "I'm up for that, too," I said. "if it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

I have always loved the Brownies so much, and so earnestly wished to believe in them, that I have taught myself to do so, and I want other to have that same pleasure.

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Estaba la teoría de Stendhal, de que el amor es un error. No es que a veces pueda errar, sino que por naturaleza es un error. El que ama se imagina perfecciones que no existen. Cuando esas fantasías desaparecen de la mente, cesa el amor. El amor no es ciego sino peor que ciego, es visionario, ve lo que no hay. A

Distant countries, heroic deeds and beautiful women spun around in our turbulent dream.

They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.

So I picked separate passages from books that I had already read and wove them together into different stories, one with no end and no beginning, all turmoil, a lawless world where characters change identities in the middle of a scene...

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

The biological function of art, in other words, is that of a rehearsal, a training in mental gymnastics which increases our tolerance of the unexpected.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

Überhaupt setzt die literarische Bildung Maßstäbe, die in der Realität nicht ausgefüllt werden können; das Spielfeld wird zu weit gesteckt.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.