#imaginative

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#death #fear #large #me #never

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ↗

— Herman Wouk

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I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#fact #go #i #imaginative #kids

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. ↗

— William Hurt

#amount #being #believe #done #energy

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. ↗

— Alexander Chase

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You can't teach someone to be imaginative. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#someone #teach #you

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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