Imaginary Friend Quotes

• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

  Paula Abdul

  Friendship, Kids, Play

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• I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him.

  George Carlin

  Children, Loner, Bother

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• I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

  Lee Ryan

  Imaginary, Stills

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• I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

  Niall Horan

  Used, Imaginary

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• Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Littles, Steps, Lost

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.246, Penguin

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• Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

  Richard Jeni

  Religious, War, Killing Each Other

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• Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Writing, Tea

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

  Chris Colfer

  Children, Imaginary

  Chris Colfer speaking at American Librarian Association, 2012.

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• All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Imaginary

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains

  Elvis Costello

  Laughter, Wine, Broken

  Song: Broken O'riordan, Album: Mighty Like A Rose, 1991

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• I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

  Ian Rankin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.

  Brian Posehn

  School, Bully, Nerd

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• I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Imagination, Form

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• I started to make a joke that I had an imaginary friend underneath the let-out couch named Binky. I would never talk to him; I would only use him as entertainment for other people. I knew they thought that children had imaginary friends, so I was like, "I don't really believe in imaginary friends, but I want to feel like I do." I used to make a joke, "My imaginary friend Binky says this," because I knew it would get a laugh out of them.

  Keke Palmer

  Children, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

  Tayari Jones

  Writing, People, Novel

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• I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All the literati keep
  An imaginary friend.

  W. H. Auden

  Friendship, Friends, Imaginary

  W. H. Auden, “The Fall Of Rome”

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• I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Wonder, Feels

  "Ethan Hawke’s Fifth Elements". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made up of imaginary friends and make believe lovers. I was also teased a lot for being different because I was shy, solitary, distant and melancholic.

  Pamela Anderson

  Believe, America, Being Different

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

  Pedro Pascal

  Two, Trying, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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