“Even when our memories are accurate…the meaning which we attribute to those experiences, in other words, the reason they are important to us, is highly influenced by the imaginary world we weave around them. In this sense, the word imaginary alludes to the extra bit we bring to our perception, the ‘seeing beyond’ referred to by Sartre… When we revisit the past, as we do when we tell stories about our lives, it is our imaginative urge which gives us the ability to contemplate a world that might have been, as well as one which might still be. It is our imagination which gives us the necessary sustenance to create visions of alternative realities, which ‘differentiates human beings from all other animals’.” — Molly Andrews, Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2014) p. 4. (with reference to a personal interview with Mary Warnock)
