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Tag Name "Imaginary" (357)

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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
Jonathan Swift
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Imaginary evils are incurable.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
Simone Weil
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Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water. - Whelk
Maggie Stiefvater
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
Jonathan Edwards
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
Manuel Puig
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Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
Josephine Hart
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.
Margaret Atwood
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
Kabir
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry.
Marianne Moore
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The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Karl Marx
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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
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
Ken Follett
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What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.
Mary McCarthy
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Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.
Kobe Bryant
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Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
Mason Cooley
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The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.
Mason Cooley
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A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.
Laura Miller
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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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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
Laurence Housman
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Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.
Maxine Cheshire
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Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.
Leland Ryken
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