"No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me."
5
"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."
6
"The imagination is man's power over nature."
5
"People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools."
6
"Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy."
7
"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth."
5
"Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination."
6
"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
5
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
4
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."
5
"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."
8
"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."
6
"I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty."
6
"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
5
"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."
4
"For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable."
6
"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."
6
"The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women."
8
"The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?"
3
"My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other."
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