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The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure. — Edmund White

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring — Adam Phillips

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler. — Tariq Ali

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. — Jess Walter

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life. — S.A. Tawks

Whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure. — Peter Straub

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination ... Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination. — Julius Lester

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances. — Mignon McLaughlin

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination. — Noah Richler

A lucky person is one who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. — Julia Stuart

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination. — Sherman Alexie

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination. — Keith Ferrazzi

Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. — Scott Adams

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating. — Mahmoud Darwish

Hatred is a failure of imagination.'
Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'. — Graham Greene

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — Robert M. Pirsig

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do? — Mark Steyn

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is! — L'Wren Scott

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. — Ben Okri

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. — Derek Parfit

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. — Bill Moyers

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich

He was my Huckleberry, my Han Solo, my one, but most of all he was my Becks and I was his Sal. That was the truth. It — Cookie O'Gorman

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination. — Vinod Khosla

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood