Imagined Quotes
921 Imagined quotes by 723 unique authors
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I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous,…
— Heidi Julavits
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m…
— Richelle Mead
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The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into…
— Cassandra Clare
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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying…
— Markus Zusak
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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
— Marisha Pessl
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I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
— Max Brooks
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Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or…
— William James
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He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
— Colum McCann
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
— Markus Zusak
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His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when…
— Shannon Hale
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Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
— Italo Calvino
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Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.
— Neil Gaiman
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You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where…
— Terry Pratchett
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Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult…
— Dave Eggers
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Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.
— J M Coetzee
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In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the…
— J R Ward
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As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion…
— Shonda Rhimes
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I didn’t know they’d do this to you. (Syd) It’s okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green…
— Sylvia Plath
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