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“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“And as is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something...” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“When we find out an idea by whose intervention we discover the connexion of two others, this is a revelation from God to us by the voice of reason: for we then come to know a truth that we did not know before.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“It is certain that I no less find the idea of God, that is to say, the idea of a supremely perfect Being, in me, than that of any figure or number whatever it is;” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

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