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“A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.”

Thinking World Feminism Imaginative

Author:Suheir Hammad

“Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.”

Book Self Reading Perfect Serious Discovery Tasks Remains Self Discovery Symbols Imaginative Printed Printed Books

Author:Julian Barnes

“There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.”

World Challenges Fantasy Figures Imaginative

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.”

Thinking World Children Sometimes Whole Remember Imagination Religious Practicals Educated Imaginative Synagogue Worlds Apart

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”

World Feels Writing Long Interesting Fiction Magic Long Time Our World Exploring Imaginative Realist Time Love Borges Rushdie Marquez

Author:Alan Lightman

“Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.”

Humans Mean Would Be Perspective Empathy Imaginative Great Gifts

Author:Dan Chaon

“I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.”

Facts Kids Strange Willing Tales Imaginative

Author:Margaret Haddix

“The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.”

People Thinking World Fiction Science Fiction Imaginative

Author:Paul Krugman