Cynthia Ozick Quotes About Imagination
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An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
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