Assorted Thoughts

Hate is a lack of imagination.
~ Graham Greene

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~ Coco Chanel

What she didn’t trust was that she meant something to other people. That she had the right to insist on her own worth.
~ Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
~ Jules de Gaultier

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.
~ Azar Nafisi

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~ Sylvia Plath

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
~ Frances Bacon

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.
~ Richard Kadrey, Aloha from Hell

Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.
~ Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

So much, also, for the alternative visions of blind old poets and dragons.
~ John Gardner

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
~ David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

Me too. David and I were both wrong.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
~ Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist‚ except an old optimist.
~ Mark Twain

I’ve been/am both. Oopsie. 

A screaming comes across the sky.
~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow