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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. Terry Brooks
Country Think Imagination Appreciating Drifted Importance Well Away
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Theodore Dalrymple
Life Me People Frustration Safety Other Danger Security Never Clear Excitement Simultaneously Without Hand Contradictory Often Want Mean Wholly Satisfying Incompatible Things Desires
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. Theodore Sturgeon
Good You Words Good Reason No Point Point Written Tightly Always Very Going Reason Using Apply
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Theodore Sturgeon
Science Field Parameters Only Poetry Outside Science Fiction Limits Whatsoever Fiction Literary Which
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. Theodore Sturgeon
People Important Important Things Tremendously Say Would Nobody Read Want Poorly Who They Say Ever Things
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. Theodore Sturgeon
Nuts Obsessive Always Been
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. Theodore Sturgeon
Writing Compassion Mind Humor Virtually Philosophical Rand Impact Some Writer Writers Economical Major Like Message She Because Passing Off Huge Huge Impact Lousy Fiction Fiction Writer Really Who Her
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. Thomas Kuhn
Time Nature Revolution Increasingly Our Once Way Our Time Crises See Feared Impetus Clear Ally Powerful Powers Force Understand Becomes Subdued Transformative Now Necessary
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. Thomas Mann
Life Best Good Man Mouth Nothing Best Part Touch Never Part Perfectly Safe Him Smoke Understand How His Anyone Literally
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann
Positive Simple Meet Triumph More Poised Adverse Adverse Conditions Conditions Than Gracefully Endurance Against Act Aggression Fatality
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. Thomas Mann
Life Myth Out Unconscious Timeless Pious Traits Which Formula Foundation Flows
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann
Life Art Language Will Degree Judgment Medium Critical High Critique Names Always Passes Itself Creates Show Creativeness Whose Speech
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. Thomas Mann
Human Being Every Moderate Human Being Should Reasonable Socialist
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Thomas Mann
Life History Long Long History Poisonous Ideas Call Intellectual Intellectual Life German Which Perversion
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. Thomas Paine
Wisdom Yourself Endeavor Own Others Virtues Rests Through Praise Encourage Efforts Which Acquired Wholly
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine
Nature Human Nature Itself Human Vicious
Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right: you can never have too much. Thomas Pynchon
Life You Too Much Too Paranoia Kitchen Never Much Garlic Right
We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal. Thomas Pynchon
Few Enormous Everybody Keys Share Terminal Era Just Moved Information Amount Recently
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa. Tim Cahill
Water Swimming Slides Out Hop Find Athletic Fond Through Lift Over Heads Like Particularly Known Repeatedly Surprisingly Spy Whales Roll Move Size Which Boa Them Slap Right Seaweed
I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. Timothy Thomas Fortune
Work Education People Higher Education Higher Colored Simply Maintain Most Instructed Industrial Sort South Done Against Should Stand Elementary Need
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. Timothy Thomas Fortune
Law Society Abnormal Most Forcible Opinion Mob Public Public Opinion Rotten Shows Expression Core
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock. Timothy Zahn
Me Change Fickle Sense Luck Security Seemed Reached She Smiling Rock False False Sense Maybe Just Lady While Again Then
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read. Todd Burpo
Truth Son Book Liar Believe Honest Person Tell Exaggerated He Know Wrote Read Knows Because Pastor Forever Person Want Gonna Dad Honest
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. Todd Solondz
Survival Narcissism Self-Deception Without Off Jump Just Which Might Us Many Bridge Mechanisms
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. Todd Solondz
Sometimes Mind Same Thing Liberal Say Someone Open Open Mind Audience Same Which Asked Who Thing Vacant
In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not. Tom Shales
Good Sometimes Nobody Cares Cares Diminished Unnecessary City Critics Dropped Nobody Because Been Replaced Maybe Staff After Anything Newspaper Deemed Film Zero
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