"The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have."

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Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

Wallace Stevens

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“Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.”
“Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.”
“The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.”
“[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.”
“If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?”

Source : "Bob Casey Backs Gay Marriage" by Sabrina Siddiqui, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2013.
“I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich to be able to hang out for two or three days, you're certainly rich enough to get on a plane and go to Munich or Düsseldorf or wherever and see somebody's real show instead of this stuff just stacked around.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.”
“Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.”

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