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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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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. – Daniel Bell

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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

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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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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination. – Patty Duke

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