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That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.


Tom Robbins

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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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EHUD OLMERT Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think becau...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think becau...
H. L. MENCKEN It is more important to be free than to be happy.
TOM ROBBINS Common sense is for people who lack imagination.
PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed......
FRANK SINATRA The kids lack for nothing. I've gone without food to make sure they have enough to eat.
ERIC BELKO I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day ...
PATRICIA MCKILLIP People need to make sure they get the guidance to do things properly.
JENNIFER COLE What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU You can't write your memoirs at halftime,
JAMES MCKEAN When people say they like you, make sure they don't like you just for the things they could take awa...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI "Expressing gratitude to God, is a way to be grateful for the things, we take for granted" ~Tom Bake...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things...
GORDON ATKINSON A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't...
BRIAN SELZNICK I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ...
GORE VIDAL Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed b...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I make things up and write them down.
NEIL GAIMAN To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.
MARSHAL PETAIN What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.
SIMON MORDEN Reality is for those who lack imagination
KAHLIL GIBRAN I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselv...
DIANE ENGLISH My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR For me, it was 90 minutes of wasted time. They got nowhere beyond their elevator statements. I'm not...
LARRY GERSTON I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives ...
ANDREA HIRATA History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
CAROL TAVRIS What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The Creator/God writes your beginning. He writes it perfectly. However, you write your ending yourse...
WOHI PURANA My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!' (O...
NICOLE KIDMAN Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
DAVID BEN-GURION For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack ...
JEAN DUBUFFET For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack o...
JEAN DUBUFFET For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of...
JEAN DUBUFFET With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up te...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure...
JOHN IRVING People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
LOIS LOWRY Members expressed a lack of understanding about the project. They wanted to make sure we're not just...
BILL TEETS Boy, they sure do make things interesting.
BEN GOMEZ I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significa...
HARVEY PEKAR The sign of a mature person is they make up lack with Love.
KIM BOOHER For a long time imagination was all i had. I allowed it to take me to all the places i yearned to be...
NIKKI ROWE They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated b...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD They make sure everything is on the up and up.
JACKIE RUBIN The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
DAVID BEN-GURION Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled...
G. K. CHESTERTON The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled th...
G. K. CHESTERTON To think inside the box is to lack imagination, but to think outside the box is to have imagination.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) After God, the only people i worship are my parents because the have done things only God can do for...
OLASOT Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbi...
TOM ROBBINS My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
LONDO MOLARI I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL People try to make names for things they don't understand.
RENE DENFELD We Don't live a moment for long, thats why we keep it as a memory. A memory to remember that moment ...
RONI POLUS I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibil...
EZRA MILLER To be mentally in prison is to lack imagination.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The strong belief can make things out of imagination.
But that can also make facts as if they w...
TOBA BETA We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
TRAVIS BARKER The Democrats are going to be upset because one of their whipping boys is gone. Tom always puts the ...
BILL PAXON Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE They had to check me out, make sure everything was on the up and up.
GWIN PRICE It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.
DAMIAN BREAUX People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and ...
OSCAR WILDE We need to make sure things are where they should be. For economic diversification and development w...
GINNIE KOZAK I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st...
TOM PERROTTA I sold the memoirs of my sex life to a publisher - they are going to make a board game out of it
WOODY ALLEN We needed that drive because you can't give the ball back to (Patriots quarterback Tom) Brady. You h...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON Research in the past has wound up abusing, harming or hurting people. You want to stick to these reg...
ARTHUR CAPLAN I would it's definitely well deserved because the class sizes are small and the teachers make sure y...
SARA ANDERSON I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about...
PAT CONROY One of the things I wanted to do, especially for beginners, was to make sure people could walk in, f...
KIRK NOVAK You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch t...
MARK PINCUS I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that...
CHARLES M. BLOW Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alt...
IAN WATSON We want to make sure people get the support that they need,
MARK MCCLELLAN People are very cautious about what they take to make sure plenty is left over for others.
LYNN COLLINS Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
SUPERNA BATHEJA I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
RICK RIORDAN It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interestin...
CLAUDE CHABROL I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you'v...
BRYAN COGMAN Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for...
JEROME LAWRENCE They didn't feel like the paper was theirs. A lot of students can't write for us because they have t...
ADEEL IQBAL When religious people take the stance that they don’t owe anyone that is hurting closure or answer...
SHANNON L. ALDER We'd better make sure that we're up on them, because they can shoot it so much deeper than anybody w...
MIKE MCCONATHY What I lack in brilliance, I more than make up for in glitter
JOSH STERN No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS At times, some are able to make up for what they lack in skill or ability by a sincere and genuine d...
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SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests...
BIBLE I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ...
NANCY GARDEN Most people fail in their desire for change because they lack the personal motivation or inspiration...
KEN POIROT "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
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TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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