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  1. Sigrid Nunez _ The Friend

    I like that, well before T.S. Eliot expressed himself on the matter, Samuel Butler stated that the severest test of the imagination was naming a cat.
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." {...} Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima
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  3. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams.
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  4. Haruki Murakami _ Kafka on the Shore

    It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
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  5. Haruki Murakami _ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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  6. Jhumpa Lahiri _ In Other Words

    Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
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  7. Tad Williams _ The Dragonbone Chair

    Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
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  8. Nick Hornby _ About a Boy

    All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning.
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  9. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs."
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  10. Ian McEwan _ Atonement

    The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
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  11. Patience Johnson _ Why Does an Orderly God Allow

    Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
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  12. Roxane Gay _ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is that all you need is your imagination. It doesn't matter who you are, you can write. Your looks, especially, don't matter.
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