Imaginary Things Quotes

• imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, People, Substance

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Firm, Stand Firm

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Firm, Stand Firm, Imaginary

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

  Norton Juster

  Life, Real, Eye

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

  Roger Scruton

  Consolation, Imaginary

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

  Kabir

  Strong, Healing, Feet

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Writing, Interest

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• A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Song, Grandmother

  "Florence And The Machine Hint At New Music Inspired By 'Dark Metaphors'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 20, 2011.

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• To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels.

  Michael Gungor

  Marketing, Genre, Imaginary

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Writing, Mean

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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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• How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

  Norton Juster

  Real, Eye, Arms

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• You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

  Angela Carter

  Long, Shadow, Emptiness

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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• One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion - as his own flag and carries it all his life and even dies for it! An intelligent man has only one flag: Flag of reason and science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Science, Men

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Life, Strong, Thinking

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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