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Quote by Cyril Connolly
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to scienc

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Its just a way of trying to get to a third thing thats not particular to any quote-unquote genre. Its been great for me its really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. Its very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. – Charlie Hunter

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Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision whats in their imagination. Whats the world going to look like when theyre my age? That really does take a huge imagination. – Richard Lugar

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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures. – Jo Nesbo

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