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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love

A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldnt be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. – Nicole Kidman

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What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. – Julianna Baggott

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. – Richard Bach

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