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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
Michael Tippett
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
Michel Gondry
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
Amy Waldman
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John Keats
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger, The Soul and the Op
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Steven Patrick Morrissey
