One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. – Frank Moore Colby
