Imaginary Friend Quotes - Page 2

• Been brainwashed since age 2
  I only had imaginary friends
  And still do
  And they hate you

  Mac Lethal

  Hate, Hip Hop, Age

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• Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Real, Sleep

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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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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• 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 wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like imaginary friends - I immersed myself in the different worlds. I always hated finishing books that I really loved for that reason.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Children, Book, Character

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• If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.

  Richard Jeni

  War, Fighting, Ifs

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• I had a very close relationship with another kid when I was growing up. I was his imaginary friend.

  Emo Philips

  Growing Up, Kids, Close Relationship

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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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• Have you seen a unicorn in the woods?" "I imagine that's next," Jared muttered. "Right," said Holly. "Well. If the unicorn is pink, about two feet tall, with a sparkly mane, we'll know my imaginary friend is real too.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Two, Feet

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?

  Dan Santat

  Television, Saws, Derivatives

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• He says he’d rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we’re family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he’s the kid with only imaginary friends for company. ‘Normal’ Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Uncles, Kids, Normal

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Kids, Rejection

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.

  Dan Santat

  Television, Saws, Derivatives

  "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

  Dylan Moran

  Lonely, Cake, Talking

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• I don't get that - people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if you're going to war over religion, now you're just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.

  Richard Jeni

  Revenge, War, People

  "Comedy Central Presents: Richard Jeni". Documentary, Comedy, www.cc.com. May 05, 2002.

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Brother, Father

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• Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing there was no longer an imaginary friend; relief that no one was looking over their shoulder any more. Several described the experience as similar to that of a child learning to go to sleep without a favorite teddy bear. Others described it as simply growing up or outgrowing the need for the imaginary friends of childhood.

  Darrel Ray

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.

  Brad Meltzer

  Writing, Sitting, Desks

  Brad Meltzer (2013). “The Fifth Assassin: The Culper Ring Trilogy 2”, p.10, Hachette UK

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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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• Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

  Keke Palmer

  Years, Names, Four

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

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• When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin

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• How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Imaginary

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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