“You do not need violence to solve your problems. Be assured that your enemies are far, far weaker than you believe yourself to be. Were they not so weak and unsure, they would not need to inflict on you in order to feel better about themselves. They also suffer from a tragic lack of imagination. This can and will be their downfall.”
Source: The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid: A Humorous Middle Grade Novel About Standing Up to Bullies for Kids
“- Чому ти не дивишся на мене? Ти вдаєш, ніби я не існую?
- Ні, Чарлі, - прошепотіла вона. - Я вдаю, ніби я не існую.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“I like to think that I have a place in my mind for an imaginary rainbow to dwell – my own internal color spectrum.”
Source: A Fantasist & A Scientist In Conversation: Creativity, Imagination, and Scientific Verification
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination.
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or memory or mental picture.
The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what it caused to follow.
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.”
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else.”
Source: Killosophy
“When you turn your own imagination into an enemy, it is called a conscience.”
“In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as: ‘this book is for children from the ages of six to sixty’. But I have never yet seen the puff of a new motor-model that began thus: ‘this toy will amuse infants from seventeen to seventy’; though that to my mind would be much more appropriate.”
“He pictures, ludicrously, a high-speed chase through the desert: he and Rio and Whale speeding towards the Polaris camp, with Juno in his probably stolen Fauxcedes barreling after them. Whale barks out the window as they leap over hillocks and take a hard turn into the scrub, howling a devil-may-care, Fuck you!”
Source: Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse
“Gratitude, visualization, and affirmation of what we want are concrete practices for applying creative thought in our lives. These approaches, through their simplicity, have the potential to radically transform our existence, encouraging us to live fully in the present and align our actions with our most cherished aims.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“You understand psychiatry?" Tracy said. "Psychiatry, no," Dr. Pingitzer said.
"People - little bit. Little, little, little bit. very year, every day - less, less, less. Why? People is difficult. People is people. People is fun, play, imagination, magic. Ah ha. People is pain, people is sick, people is mad, people is hurt, people is hurt people, is kill, is kill self. Where is fun, where is play, where is imagination, where is magic? Psychiatry I hate. People I love. Mad people, beautiful people, hurt people, sick people, broke people, in pieces people, I love, I love. Why? Why is lost from people fun, play, imagination, magic? What for? Ah ha. Money?" He smiled. "I think so. Money. Is love, this money. Is beauty, this money. Is fun, this money. Where is money? I do not know. No more fun. Work, now. Work, Tiger, Tiger.”
Source: Tracy's Tiger