"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."

Brown, Les on imagination
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"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."

Miller, Henry on life
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs."

Miller, Henry on books - reading   

"The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him."

Miller, Henry on talent
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"Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now..."

Miller, Henry on torture   

"The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it."

Miller, Henry on waste   

"Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc."

Miller, Henry on civilization
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"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood."

Miller, Henry on confusion
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"We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."

Miller, Henry on conversation
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"We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way."

Miller, Henry on criticism   

"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."

Miller, Henry on submission
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"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."

Miller, Henry on belief   

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

Miller, Henry on solutions   

"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

Miller, Henry on society
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

Miller, Henry on passion
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"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."

Miller, Henry on art
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"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."

Miller, Henry on attitude
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"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."

Miller, Henry on politics
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"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."

Miller, Henry on potential   

"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."

Miller, Henry on procrastination   

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

Miller, Henry on self-control
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"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant."

Miller, Henry on sex
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"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."

Miller, Henry on music   

"The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am."

Bierstedt, Robert on imagination
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"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."

Berger, John on imagination   

"What is now proved was only once imagined."

Blake, William on imagination
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"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."

Brande, Dorothea on imagination   

"The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there."

Brown, Gene on imagination   

"When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether."

Anderson, Marian on imagination
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on imagination
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life."

Unknown, Source on hope
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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope."

Revson, Charles on hope
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

Marden, Orison Swett on hope
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"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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