"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."
-Ian Mcewan
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
-Ian Mcewan
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
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"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me."
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"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."
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"I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force."
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-Lao Tzu
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e. e. cummings
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
-Anais Nin
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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