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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. - Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. – Ian Mcewan

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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. – Ian Mcewan

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strength
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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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Imagination
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. Its the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. – Philip Guston

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Imagination

I think whats really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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Imagination

Ive always had an active imagination. – Rickie Lee Jones

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Imagination

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. – Ambrose Bierce

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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. – Warren Farrell

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. – Frank Zappa

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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod. – Josh Billings

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