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Quote by Philip Roth
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorpora

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. – Philip Roth

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People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun. – Philip Roth

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Literature isnt a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts. – Philip Roth

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. – Leonard Orr

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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. – Richard Hofstadter

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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Imagination is the air of mind. – Philip James Bailey

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