Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 420 authors

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… — Ann Patchett
homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. — C.S. Lewis
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. — Walt Whitman
When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as… — Paul Auster
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate. — Tom Robbins
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and… — Hermann Hesse
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish… — Thomas Pynchon
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… — C.S. Lewis
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. — George Carlin
If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my… — Elvis Costello
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by… — Harlan Ellison
I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a… — Markus Zusak
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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