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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgroun

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. – J. K. Rowling

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling

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We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. – Wallace Stevens

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. – Emile Coue

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. – Sandra Bernhard

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