Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"We need to imagine life differently to live it differently."
Saul Bellow
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"Imagination is more important than facts, especially in literature."
Joseph Heller
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"Imagination is the only unlimited resource we have."
Joseph Heller
"The mind is capable of anything if given the freedom to imagine."
Philip Roth
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"Every moment contains the possibility of everything."
Norman Mailer
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"We do not think our way through the world but imagine our way through it."
Norman Mailer
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"Reality is something you rise above."
William S. Burroughs
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Allen Ginsberg
"We are such inquisitive creatures; we just can't help trying to figure out what things mean."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything."
Jack Kerouac
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"Some people are always complaining, but I have learned to use my imagination."
Joseph Heller
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"Reality is what you make it."
William S. Burroughs
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"The future is already here."
William S. Burroughs
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"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
William S. Burroughs
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"The imagination is the only weapon against reality's cruelty."
Norman Mailer
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"Imagination without discipline is mere fantasy; with discipline, it's genius."
Norman Mailer
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"Prophecy is a matter of intimate detail and common sense"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Everything is an act of imagination"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Boredom is a dead thing in the mind."
William S. Burroughs
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"Imagination is the ability to see what isn't there."
William S. Burroughs
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"Imagination is the key to all creation."
William Carlos Williams
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"I realized that I had been staring at the stars in wonder the whole time as a child."
Jack Kerouac
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"The imagination is fundamentally the least rational faculty."
Hart Crane
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"I have known oceans of dreams."
Hart Crane
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"Imagination is the beginning of all things."
Hart Crane
"I once read a story about a perfectly contented man living in the Midwest."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The imagination is the mover and shaker of the world."
William Carlos Williams
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"Innovation comes from looking at old things with fresh eyes."
William Carlos Williams
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"The future depends on our ability to imagine it differently"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge or facts"
Allen Ginsberg