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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. -- Barbara Sher
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. -- Emo Philips
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. -- Thomas Szasz
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H. L. Mencken
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. -- Neil Gaiman
Imaginary evils are incurable. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure. -- Marty Rubin
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. -- John Ruskin
Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. -- Stephen Hawking
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. -- Gottfried Leibniz
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. -- Dave Barry
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
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. -- Emile M. Cioran
I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.' -- David Archuleta
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be. -- Alison Gopnik
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. -- Sanford Meisner
I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael. -- Niall Horan
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. -- Simone Weil
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. -- Saul Bellow
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. -- Marianne Moore
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. -- Walt Whitman
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. -- Blaise Pascal
The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be. -- Claire Forlani
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. -- Andre Breton
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. -- Dorothy Dix
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. -- Talulah Riley
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. -- E. W. Howe
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. -- Federico Fellini
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. -- Leonard Susskind
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. -- Franz Liszt
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. -- Ann Patchett
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
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. -- Rickie Lee Jones
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
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. -- Paul Auster
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
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. -- Mary Wesley
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.' -- Dan Brown
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. -- Michel Foucault
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. -- Edward Dahlberg
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners. -- Pippa Middleton
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. -- Stanley Spencer
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
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' -- Mohsin Hamid
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. -- Jim Woodring
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. -- Noam Chomsky
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. -- Chief Seattle
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. -- Hannah Murray
What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men suck, even imaginary ones -- James Patterson
Writers fly with imaginary wings. -- Melody Robinette
Real. Does that make me imaginary? -- Stephenie Meyer
Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't. -- Janina Gavankar
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. -- Gustave Flaubert
Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones. -- Mason Cooley
All the literati keep An imaginary friend. -- W. H. Auden
I'm not interested in an imaginary world. -- Edward Bond
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary. -- Mikey Way
I'm not interested in an imaginary world -- Edward Bond
All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote. -- Andre Comte-Sponville
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The imaginary is what tends to become real. -- Andre Breton
My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. -- Chris Colfer
Do not be content with an imaginary god. -- Allen Grossman
This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? -- Alan Moore
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate. -- Tom Robbins
The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. -- Roger Scruton
The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results. -- Robert Moss
Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds. -- Gautama Buddha
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. -- Raymond Queneau
Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real. -- T.L. Rese
We should allow ourselves all pleasures, real or imaginary. -- Marty Rubin
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. -- Mason Cooley
The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me. -- Rocko
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. -- Jonathan Edwards
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. -- Mary McCarthy
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. -- Joseph Brodsky
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. -- Amy Waldman
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. -- Josephine Hart
In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. -- Helen Keller
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. -- Virginia Woolf
what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies? -- Lynda Barry
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. -- Mark Akenside
Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence. -- Marty Rubin
Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. -- Marty Rubin
Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land. -- Noah Hathaway
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent. -- Mason Cooley
Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either. -- Mason Cooley
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To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. -- Stefan Molyneux
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. -- Teju Cole
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. -- Douglas Coupland
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me. -- Olivia Wilde
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. -- Aesop
To me genres were always an imaginary things, they're just marketing channels. -- Michael Gungor
The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. -- Stephen Richards
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. -- Raymond E. Feist
Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances -- Sanford Meisner
There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. -- Fumito Ueda
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. -- Lee Ryan
You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real. -- Breyten Breytenbach
My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals. -- Bill Cosby
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones. -- John Adams
The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. -- Francois Fenelon
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. -- Tony Robbins

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