“To remember something or to invent something, it comes to the same thing.”
Obituaries (1979)
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American writer 1908–1981Related quotes
“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”
Source: The Time Keeper
Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
Context: I guess my favorite thing in the world is when I look at a piece of art, or read a story, or watch a movie where I walk away feeling like "Oh my god — I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore" — and so I try to make work where you come away with that feeling. It's like, yeah, you're thinking about what you just saw, but even more than that — you feel able, you feel like, kind of propelled.
“Something experienced is true; the same thing believed is a lie.”
[39, Psychobabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology - and the Biblical Alternative, Richard L. Ganz, 1993, Crossway Books, 0891077340]
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“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
Source: The World According to Garp]] (1978)
“When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.”