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Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

— Michael Bishop No Enemy But Time (1982)

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Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

But each man who worships you sees only what he wishes to see rather than any mystery you may actually embody.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is.

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

His foot always got caught in that wide, loose stirrup: his mouth.

Old Folks at Home (1978)

You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one.

No Enemy But Time (1982)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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