"For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?"

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Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

Leah Hager Cohen

#Imagination Quotes #Trying Quotes #Tools Quotes

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”
“Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.”
“I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.”
“I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.”

Source : "I'm a horrible bully" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2003.
“Amiability shines by its own light.”
“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”
“The emotions of the game do not change.”
“Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.”

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