"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."

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Source : Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

Irving Howe

#Reality Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.”
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.”
“Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.”
“I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.”
“There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.”
“With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.”
“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.”
“Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid another Inquisition.”

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