Quote by Irving Howe
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leav

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality. – Irving Howe

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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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I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? – Jean Claude Duvalier

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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. – Shirley Hazzard

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To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. – Donald Sutherland

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