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• Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!

  George William Curtis

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  Felix Bloch

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• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  Fay Wray

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• The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

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• Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

  Cyril Connolly

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  The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

  Steven Spielberg

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

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• Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  George Orwell

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• People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

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• When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

  George Kennedy

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• To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in s*x. Art is the s*x of the imagination.

  George Jean Nathan

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• Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

  George Henry Lewes

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• Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

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• I’m not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

  Courteney Bass Cox

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• The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

  George Gilbert Aime Murray

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• I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

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• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

  Sir Michael Terence Wogan

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