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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, bei

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and Ive fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. – Mary Wesley

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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. – Ahmet Zappa

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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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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