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"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."

Annie Dillard on Imagination

More quotes about Imagination

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

  Dr. Seuss on Imagination

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

  Sun Tzu on Imagination

More quotes by Annie Dillard

• "The surest sign of age is loneliness."

• "There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

• "It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere."

• "People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."

• "Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone."