“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” WorldInspirationalGivingHumansImaginationStupidFoolGive MeEqualityStubbornExileMy ImaginationHuman ImaginationSolipsism Book:Unlocking the Air and Other Stories Source: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.” KnowsGivingKindTwoRealSeemsImaginationMoralDoctorsGive MePhilosophicalMedicinePhilosopherUselessSicknessRemedyPhysiciansConsolationDoctor WhoAilments Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.” WorldWayGivingImaginationImagineGive MeStartingLandscapeAbstractFeedingMy Imagination Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” WayGivingFeelsPersonsBookRealRealityReadingImaginationAttentionHealthyOppositesGive MeContactBlissAccomplishedDisorderSmarterDeficitBetter PersonAttention Deficit DisorderToo Real Author:Nora Ephron
“In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.” GivingKindI CanRealSufferingLiteratureImaginationCasesAdventureGive MeRevengeReal Life Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?” KnowsWantGivingI CanStoriesUseCertainReadingStuffImaginationWorryGive MeMy ImaginationReading StoriesKalamazoo Author:Billy Campbell
“I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings” GivingImaginationInfluenceInspireCapableGive MeWingsMy Imagination Author:Nas