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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
  • 2. You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
  • 3. The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
  • 2. Acting is fantastic but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.
  • 3. I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

3 Anger

  • 1. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave he bought me three wedding rings already!
  • 2. Never go to bed angry stay up and fight.
  • 3. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
  • 2. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 3. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
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