Gertrude Atherton - Imagination Quotes

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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

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Rachel's imagination had never worked toward the fact that money could roll down hill and not roll up again.

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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

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Her imagination modeled no pleasing features upon the ugly skull of matrimony.

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