"What matters is the imaginative truth." — Edna O'Brien
"What matters is the imaginative truth."
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Edna O'Brien
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43 Quotes by Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien has 43 quotes on this site.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
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In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in…
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Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
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I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love…
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Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the…
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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield,…
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After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
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You have to be lonely to be a writer
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I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time....
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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue,…
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More Imaginative Quotes
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one of 268 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
— Margot Asquith
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they…
— Russell Banks
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be…
— Franz Boas
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
— Rita Mae Brown
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees…
— Larry R. Thompson
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I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and…
— Mairead Corrigan
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If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see…
— Alan Moore
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must…
— Joanna Lumley
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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate…
— Bede Griffiths
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