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Imagine Quotes by John Irving
- A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
- You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else.…
- This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
- Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
- The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.…
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
- So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
More Imagine Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. — Joseph Barbera
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they… — James A. Baldwin
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting. — Javier Bardem
- Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But… — Javier Bardem
- I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. — Lynda Barry
- In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think… — Steven Adler