#magi

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ↗

— George Orwell

#boot #face #forever #future #human

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #atmosphere #completely #damaging #forms

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#else #go #i #imagine #imagining

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#books #church #could #god #i

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#book #broaden #came #character #even

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#assured #cannot #country #existing #forward

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. ↗

— Amos Oz

#every #exception #experienced #i #i can

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#magic #people #persian #word

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#depression #george #grew #i #imagine