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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”

Mind Ideas Past Turns Fantasy Alive Shapes Creating Pointing Live In The Present

Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!”

“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.”

“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”

Men Age Turns Modern Fashion Shapes Sight Shining Surface Lust Arise Selfishness Iron Gray Rays Ashes Rainbow Torn Fragments Fluid Blast Phoenix Modern Man Runes

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.”

Knows World Giving Feels Persons Enough Moving Turns Strong Force Felt Gone Knowing Share Shapes Connections Give Me Survived Not Alone Strong Enough

Author:Gregory Orr

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."”

People Looks Turns Youth Shapes Wow Better Now

Author:Jack Black

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”

Firsts Book Running Turns Hell Cutting Hair Shapes Thirds Down And Blow Noses Combs Knobs

Author:Terry Pratchett