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• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

  Theodore Newton Vail

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
  Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
  Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives.
  Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally.
  Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Real, Numbers

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.

  Claire Messud

  Memories, Home, Ideas

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.118, Vintage

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• To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

  Henry Miller

  Self, Way, Germs

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• Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Unique, Love Of My Life

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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• All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

  Philip Sington

  Girl, Mother, Believe

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• One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.

  Helen Fielding

  Sight, Tears, Needs

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• Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

  Orson Scott Card

  Imagination, Tragedy, Bed

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Girl, Cells

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eyelashes, Talking, Play

  FaceBook post by Sherrilyn Kenyon from Apr 10, 2013

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• I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

  Paul Auster

  Running, Mean, Trying

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• Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sleep, Water, Floating

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• The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.

  Sanford Meisner

  Believe, Emotional, Theatre

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• what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

  Lynda Barry

  Enemy, Imaginary Friend

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• I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

  Harlan Ellison

  Acceptance, Good Friend, No Friends

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Virginia, Two

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• See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hurt, Lying, Special

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1159, Simon and Schuster

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• We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, People, Dreamer

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• I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.

  John Green

  Song, Mean, Glam Rock

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

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• Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jealousy, Running, Real

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3698, e-artnow

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• And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

  Connie Willis

  Writing, London, Place And Time

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Ambitious

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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