"The world is not run by thought, nor……" — Elizabeth Drew

"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion."

— Elizabeth Drew

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13 Quotes by Elizabeth Drew

Elizabeth Drew has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore…
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the…
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital…
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a…
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have…
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

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More Imagination Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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