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Politics is the enemy of the imagination. - Ian Mcewan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination. – Ian Mcewan

Other quotes by Ian Mcewan

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. – Ian Mcewan

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Experience
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. – Ian Mcewan

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funny
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They werent able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. – Ian Mcewan

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. – Andre Dubus III

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Imagination

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business. – Thomas Kinkade

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Imagination

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. – Mary Richards

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Imagination

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Imagination

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. – Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. – Pete Dye

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He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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