Imagining Quotes

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Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:… — Joe Dunthorne
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
The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent… — Tony Kushner
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they… — Robin Wasserman
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into… — Dorothy Allison
one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another — John Keats
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining. — Jonathan Safran Foer
During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw… — Ann Brashares
There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student… — Rebecca Solnit
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss
She looks at the swings, and I can see sheâ€™s imagining what theyâ€™d look like if the kids werenâ€™t there. The guilt of this holds… — Markus Zusak
The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms. — Richelle Mead
Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone. "You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind. — Richelle Mead
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning… — Dennis Lehane
Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd… — Alice Sebold
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word… — Mark Haddon
I love life - thatâ€™s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. — Albert Camus
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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