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Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

Terry Pratchett
Fun, Sleep, Imagination

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett
Reading, Imagination, Upset
FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Terry Pratchett
Imagination, Made, Small Gods
Foreword to "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy" by David Pringle, 1998.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Pratchett
Imagination, Looks, Invention

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Terry Pratchett
Real, Imagination, Trying

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Terry Pratchett
Real, Imagination, Fortune Telling

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Imagination, Interesting

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Terry Pratchett
Imagination, Looks, Said

It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

Terry Pratchett
Glowing, Purple, Imagination
"The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

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