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Tag Name "Imaginary" (358)

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Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.
David Samuels
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
James F. Cooper
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
Ian Rankin
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We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!
Catherine DeVrye
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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
Clive James
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San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.
Dave Barry
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In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.
Jane Jacobs
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I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.
Dan Santat
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When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing
Frederick Lenz
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The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward
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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
Jean Baudrillard
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Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances
Sanford Meisner
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
Richard Jeni
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There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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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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Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability
Robert Kanigel
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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 imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
Elvis Costello
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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
Charlotte Dacre
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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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