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Quote by William Trevor
The capacity youre thinking of is imagination without it there can

The capacity youre thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. – William Trevor

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George Smith Patton, War as I Knew It, 1947

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