"History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination."

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Jennifer Gilmore

#Imagination Quotes #Release Quotes

“But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.”
“You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.”
“None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.”

Source : Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.115, Macmillan
“A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.”
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.”
“It was easy in the early nineties to make a list of great things that could be done, now that there was such a convenient source of entangled pairs. Anton's claim to fame is that he went and did them.”
“The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.”
“All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.”

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