“Imagination was condemned to make something of things.”
“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.”
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
“When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things”
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn”
“You weren't there, you didn't see,' he said. 'There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”