I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

Kingsley Amis
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. - John Keats

  2. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real. - William K. Mahony

  4. Shadows only come to life in our imaginations. Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination. - Anthony T. Hincks

  5. Truth is a matter of the imagination. - Unknown

More Quotes By Kingsley Amis
  1. Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law...

  2. Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'" Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

  3. Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you–free.

  4. If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

  5. Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

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