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Autobiography and memoir3 quotes
Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. — Agatha Christie · 1976I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. — Edmund Wilson · 1956Wise people... Are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. — Henry Ford · 1922Philosophical literature2 quotes
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Socrates · 375 BCOne must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Modernist literature1 quote
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. — Marcel Proust · 1921Psychological literature1 quote
Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses. — William James · 1890Travel writing1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869