It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?
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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
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Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in ord...
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[T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
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Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. En...
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, an...
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
