#imaginary

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#communism #crusade #even #imaginary #more

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it. ↗

— Ben Rice

#death #imaginary-friends #imagination #pobby-and-dingan #death

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#imaginary-things #immigrants #immigration #imagination

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

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I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#book #celebration #different #events #experience