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If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

Ryohgo Narita
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

S. E. Hinton
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For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination. by Ryan Reynolds

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

Ryan Reynolds
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and... by Saint Francis de Sales

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

Saint Francis de Sales
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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is... by Saint Augustine

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

Saint Augustine
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

Salman Rushdie
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There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and in the end I talk about that, with the Richard Prince picture. But mainly, what I dedicated the book to being about was how photographs begin their life, and where they begin it. And they begin it with the photographer's imagination and instinct and experience.

Sam Abell
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie
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Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more da... by Saint Augustine

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Saint Augustine
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Sam Levenson
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Salman Rushdie
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

Sam Raimi
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The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Salman Rushdie
realimaginationdream

The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

Salman Rushdie
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Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. by Salman Rushdie

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

Salman Rushdie
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Salman Rushdie
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Samuel Dash
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The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Samuel Butler
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Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Samuel Mockbee
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