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What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. -- Lisel Mueller
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are. -- Blaise Pascal
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. -- Zoe Kazan
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
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate. -- Mark Leyner
I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set. -- Mira Sorvino
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real. -- Blaise Pascal
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
If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations. -- James Martineau
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. -- Virginia Woolf
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience. -- Douglas Coupland
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent. -- Mason Cooley
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. -- Mason Cooley
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. -- Robert Krulwich
Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk -- Maggie Stiefvater
I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God. -- Jim Jefferies
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts. -- Gay Hendricks
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. -- Don Herold
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. -- Fanny Kemble
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both. -- Christopher Koch
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. -- Alexandre Dumas
There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive. -- Benjamin
I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog! -- Matthew Lillard

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