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Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, ... some lies can be true, ... broken faith may be restored. — Joanne Harris

Green is a smart choice - good for an imaginary girl or an imaginary boy. And the season isn't at all relevant with imaginary children. < — Rainbow Rowell

I was maybe the only person to ever have his imaginary friend made real. — Brittany Cavallaro

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. — Talulah Riley

I wanted to reach back to other times I might have lived in, the traces of which are scattered to places I previously thought imaginary. — Hassan Blasim

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary. — George Santayana

But we all live there, I thought to myself, in the imaginary stories we tell ourselves about our lives. — Siri Hustvedt

Literature is the real life of imaginary people. — Stefanos Livos

What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? — Forrest Carr

The inner imaginary universe of the human primate is the battlefield of the ages — Christopher Zzenn Loren

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera

My sister wrote letters to the dead and hid them in her bedroom drawers.
I wrote imaginary letters in my head to living. — Renee Ruin

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results. — Robert Moss

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam. — Omar Bongo

I'm extremely moved by the loving, caring relationship the President always seems to have with his imaginary son. — Dennis Miller

Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. — Marty Rubin

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans. — Abhijit Naskar

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. — Bill Cosby

I dreamed of my other family, the imaginary one with boring parents, — Peter Swanson

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. — Christian Nestell Bovee

No imaginary judgments of form, The clouds Butterfat — Jack Kerouac

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. — Charles Caleb Colton

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don't we secretly clasp each other's hands? — Bruno Schulz

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia. — Herodotus

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. — George Eliot

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. — Rumi

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner. — Rene Magritte

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. — Roger Scruton

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. — Charles McGrath

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. — Roger Scruton

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. — C.S. Lewis

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names. — Dana Spiotta

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. — E.W. Howe

I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe. — Fanny Kemble

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. — George Bernard Shaw

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be. — Jonathan Nolan

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. — Nicole Brossard

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me. — Rocko

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances. — Paul Hoffman

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is...you're only as invisible as you feel, imaginary or not. — Michelle Cuevas

The irony of talking to animals and an imaginary girlfriend, who keep me sane, even though I know I look like a raving lunatic, isn't lost on me. — Elyse Draper

I felt like I was losing some imaginary battle over the forces of fate and love. — Jessica Fox

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. — Fred Alan Wolf

Author: A person who's best friends are imaginary,and who's most exciting adventures take place on the written page. — Theodore Volgoff

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives. — Brandon Sanderson

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. — William C. Samples

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building. — Clive James

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. — Marianne Moore

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains. — Karl Marx

Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. — Dejan Stojanovic

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world. — Robert Krulwich

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form. — Tony Robbins

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. — Paramahansa Yogananda

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time. — Stephen Hawking

Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O — Siri Hustvedt

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. — Peter Jackson

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. — Zoe Kazan

No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time). — Stephen Hawking

My mom said I was an escapist at heart ... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one — Amy Plum

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. — Virginia Woolf

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend. — Joseph Brodsky

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. — H.L. Mencken

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't. — Janina Gavankar

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. — Francis Bacon

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. — Brad Meltzer

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. — Edward J. Fraughton

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real. — Ethan Hawke

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. — Barbara Kingsolver

Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality. — Abhijit Naskar

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. — Emo Philips

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it. — Samuel Witwer

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. — David Antin

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary. — Amy Waldman

The line separating the real from the imaginary is infinitesimally small. Or is it there at all? — Ben McKinnon

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs. — Ross Macdonald

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. — Melissa Kantor

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. — Jean Baudrillard

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. — Federico Fellini

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. — Ambrose Bierce

As the years passed, it became clear that Alio was a ghost, not an imaginary friend. Imaginary friends have no borders, but ghosts often do. — S. Vest

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure. — John Lennon

She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten. — Sophie Kinsella

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. — Neil Gaiman

There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. — Anthony Powell