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“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

Trying Firsts Facts Found Taken Imagine Europe Performances London Naked Shocked Statues Ulysses Hawthorne

Book:The Last Novel

Source: The Last Novel

“People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.”

People Men May Taken Greater Imagine Imagine That Private Life Authorship

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.”

World Two Done Would Be Universe Taken Imagine Poet Reader Ideals Program Mirrors Sexy Alternatives Two Things Crew Heartbreaking Auden Prospero

Author:Richard Howard

“Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.”

Want Goal Steps Taken Imagine Where You Are

Author:Brian Tracy

“I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.”

Knows Men Mind Long Lasts Remember Forget Taken Imagine Block

Book:Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman

Source: Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman

“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.”

Two Different Turns Poor Cases Taken Imagine Perspective Reader Accounts Instance African American Reports Farmers Familiarity Terrain Preconceptions

Author:William Finnegan

“Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's one way of better understanding your experience, comparing it to other possible experiences you can imagine having.”

Ifs Way Writing Kind Made Understanding Differences Taken Imagine Made It One Way Compare Encounters Suggesting Helen Interrogation Road Not Taken

Author:Laura Mullen

“People don't want to look at you and think, 'Oh, it must have taken her so long to get ready!' It's not as exciting to imagine. They want to imagine your life being - well, the opposite of what it sometimes is, where getting dressed is very regimented, you know? People don't want to know that.”

People Thinking Knows Want Wells Looks Long Sometimes Taken Imagine Ready Opposites Exciting Getting Dressed

Author:Margot Robbie