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I can imagine living without food. I cannot imagine living without books.
(Alice Foote MacDougall (1867-1945), U.S. businesswoman. The Autobiography of a Business Woman, ch. 2 (1928).
Recalling her childhood self-education in her grandfather's library, where she read works by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, Smollett, Shelley, Spenser, Browning, Emerson, and George Eliot, among other writers.)
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Imagination Dead Imagine.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The title of a short work in First Love and Other Shorts, p. 61, Grove Press (1974).)
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Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic, novelist. The Painter (l. 25). . .
Selected Poems [John Ashbery]. (1986) Penguin Books.)
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Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from
anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I
could completely imagine his suffering and I replied
that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not
imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to
remember that about imagination, that is when the
world gets dull when everybody does not know what
they can or what they cannot really imagine.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Everybody's Autobiography, ch. 3, Random House (1937).)
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For as change is horror,
Virtue is really stubbornness
And only in the light of lost words
Can we imagine our rewards.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers.")
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For imagine my shame when they asked what I meant
And I had to confess that I'd been, gone and went
And forgotten the news I was bringing to Ghent,
(R. J. Yeatman (1898-1968), British parodist, and W. C. Sellar (1898-1951), British parodist. How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent (or Vice Versa) (l. 18-20). . .
Faber Book of Parodies, The. Simon Brett, ed. (1984) Faber and Faber.)
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
(Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist. Oliver Twist, ch. 37, p. 267 (1838).)
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People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
(W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1966), British author. A Writer's Notebook, entry, 1902 (1949).)
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One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 221, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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