
„Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.“
— Martha Wells American writer 1964
Source: City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
— Martha Wells American writer 1964
Source: City of Bones
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
— Dorothy Dunnett British writer 1923 - 2001
— Stephen R. Lawhead American writer 1950
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 56
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Variant: Action... is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
— Colum McCann, book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
— Jean Paul German novelist 1763 - 1825
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 238.
— Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016
Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 107.
On Leading Well
— George Steiner American writer 1929 - 2020
"Night Words," Encounter (October 1965).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
— John D. Barrow British scientist 1952
Preface
The Book of Nothing (2009)
Context: The spooky ether was persistent. It took an Einstein to remove it from the Universe.... Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined. Its presence is felt on the very smallest and largest dimensions over which the forces of Nature act.
— Northrop Frye Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912 - 1991
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html
Context: At the level of ordinary consciousness the individual man is the centre of everything, surrounded on all sides by what he isn't. At the level of practical sense, or civilization, there's a human circumference, a little cultivated world with a human shape, fenced off from the jungle and inside the sea and the sky. But in the imagination anything goes that can be imagined, and the limit of the imagination is a totally human world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
— Kanan Makiya American orientalist 1949
"The Arab Spring started in Iraq", The New York Times (April 6, 2013)
— Denise Levertov Poet 1923 - 1997
Conversation in Moscow
Context: To serve the people,
one must write for the ideal reader. Only for the ideal reader.
And who or what is that ideal reader? God. One must imagine,
One must deeply imagine
— Saul Bellow, book Henderson the Rain King
General sources
Source: Henderson the Rain King (1959) [Viking/Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-140-07269-1], ch. XVIII, p. 271
— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
— Louis Aragon French poet, novelist and editor 1897 - 1982