Imaginary Quotes - Page 28

• The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Average, Justice

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.113, Vintage

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Vanity, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Thoughtful, Simple

  Interview with McClain Johnson, mcclainjohnson.com.

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• I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Two, Triangles, Spheres

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• All the literati keep
  An imaginary friend.

  W. H. Auden

  Friendship, Friends, Imaginary Friend

  W. H. Auden, “The Fall Of Rome”

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• So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Cute, Too Much, Way

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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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 think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Robots, Kind

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any particular country. I had come to a nice space with the imaginary Cuba or the imaginary America that I thought existed.

  Richard Blanco

  Country, Nice, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Believe, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

  Sanford Meisner

  Acting, Circumstances, Theatre Actors

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• Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Real, Evil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.70, Psychology Press

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• We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.31, Ultramarine Publishing

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• I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Half, Quiet, Sometimes

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• Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

  George Washington

  Real, War, Enmity

  George Washington (2008). “George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior: ...And Other Important Writings”, p.175, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. It’s all the same.

  Jay Leno

  Girlfriend, Real, President

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• Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Thinking, Rushing, New Day

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