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

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Ill confess right here that I secretly wish Id have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. – Berkeley Breathed

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Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order. – Ezra Taft Benson

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Every baby needs a lap. – Henry Robin

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldnt say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. – Todd Gitlin

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