James Joyce Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Body Quotes

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

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Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

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Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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Imagination is more valuable than information.

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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