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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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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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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. – George S. Patton

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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The Food Network was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldnt get there by subway, you couldnt be on. It wasnt like TV was something I really wanted to do – but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants. – Bobby Flay

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You will go most safely in the middle. – Ovid

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