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• I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Adults, Youth

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• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Believe, Pride

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

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• I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Real, Writing

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• what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

  Lynda Barry

  Enemy, Imaginary Friend

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• Men suck, even imaginary ones

  James Patterson

  Men

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• A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

  W. H. Auden

  Insane, Facts, Would Be

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• You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brave, Care, Persons

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.37, A&C Black

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• The imaginary is what tends to become real.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Reality

  The White-Haired Revolver (1932)

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• As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

  Brion Gysin

  Two, People, World

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press

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• At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Holding Back

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Real, Heart

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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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• Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

  Sarah MacLean

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.169, Scholastic Inc.

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• ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.

  Marianne Moore

  Real, Garden, Hands

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Love Is, Perception, Shadow

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• Real. Does that make me imaginary?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Real, Doe

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• Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

  Lev Grossman

  Intelligent, Tree, Would Be

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.225, Penguin

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• We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, People, Dreamer

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• Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, People, Secret

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Superhero

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Games, Cities

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.674, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Eye, Numbers

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• But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

  Philip Pullman

  Science, Thinking, Squares

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Doubt, World, No Doubt

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer”

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