Quote by Janet Frame
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

Other quotes by Janet Frame

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. – Janet Frame

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Persuasion
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, were always in other places, lost, like sheep. – Janet Frame

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Travel
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats

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Imagination

Ive done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination. – Katy Perry

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Imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan

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Imagination

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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Imagination

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