Imaginary Quotes

524 quotes by 420 authors

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are… — Milan Kundera
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. — Gustave Flaubert
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… — Michel Foucault
I can't even trust my own imaginary dog. How much lower can a person get? — Meg Rosoff
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith… — Joanne Harris
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down… — Neil Gaiman
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we… — Rebecca Solnit
Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps… — Sue Monk Kidd
the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and… — Pope Benedict XVI
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book… — Annie Dillard
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies… — Bertrand Russell
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because… — Kurt Vonnegut
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. — Alan Moore
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. — Robin Cook
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… — Douglas Coupland
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… — Jane Austen
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… — Neil Gaiman

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