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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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Ive been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. Its up to you, the only limit is the imagination. – Steve Lacy

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that theres not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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