Imagination Quote by Ben Lerner Download Open image ““I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering”” — Ben Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Memory
“I wanted to remember this moment even as it was happening, to imagine it as already gone.” — Lisa Ko Copy Share Image
“It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.” — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.” — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
“Guess I imagined being a part of a feeling that could be brought to life in people’s imaginations and eyes” — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“What you imagine is what you remember, and what you remember is what you’re left with. So why not decide to imagine it a… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
“I would have imagined that to be unimaginable. Sometimes I still do.” — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It felt like stepping into a memory that had kept going without her.” — Coral Harper Copy Share Image
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,” — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence?… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image