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Quote by Philip Jose Farmer

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

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Philip Jose Farmer, born on January 26, 1918, in Illinois, USA, and passed away on February 25, 2009. He was an American science fiction author known for his unique literary style and his re interpretations of history and mythology. more

“It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?”

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Book:Northrop Frye on Canada

Source: Northrop Frye on Canada

“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”

Character Interest Betray Packs

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“Only when I fall do I get up again.”

Fall Get Up Making Mistakes Fallibility

Book:Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

Source: Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.”

People Book Different Pieces Advice Library

Author:Tony Kushner

“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”

Recognition Shock

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

Men World Today Left Rooms Issues Politician Office Merit World Today

Book:The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

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