“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.”
“As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.”
“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.”
“If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.”
“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.”
“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”
“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.”
“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.”
“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”
“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.”
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”