Imaginary Quotes - Page 16

• As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

  Lawrence Block

  Meaningful, People, Littles

  Lawrence Block “Telling Lies for fun and Profit”

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• Even a simple imaginary exercise can change your mood: Close your eyes, and take yourself back to your last holiday where there was a lovely warm sun, beautiful sea, relaxed beach and fun meals in the evenings. Open your eyes and consider how you feel now.

  Liz Miller

  Beautiful, Beach, Fun

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

  Liz Miller

  Obsession, Mood, Habit

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dream, Cities, Principles

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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, Imaginary Friend

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• We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Praying, Exertion, Our Time

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• Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

  Gina Barreca

  Fear, Safety, Circumstances

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• It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Agony, Desire

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• So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Evil, Optimism

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.101, Penguin

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• It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Real, Frustration

  "The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood". Book by Selma Fraiberg, 1959.

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• The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Special

  Baltimore Evening Sun, February 12, 1923.

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• I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!

  Dave Barry

  Halloween, Hero, Doors

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Order, Results

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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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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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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 love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Love Is, Creating

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfection, Gita, Krishna

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.18, North Atlantic Books

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• Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heaven, Ignorant, Mind

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• What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.

  Carl Bernstein

  Lying, Self, Ideas

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• When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

  Don DeLillo

  Typewriters, Mind, Lasts

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• It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Character, Thinking

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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