#imaginary

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#allows #central #device #express #feelings

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

#created #experience #i #i want you #imaginary

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

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

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

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. ↗

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

#been #devotions #during #expedition #henry

Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn’t understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory’s uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#friendship #goodbye #imaginary-friend #kindness #need

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

— Bill Cosby

#brother #dreaming #every #family #imaginary

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#always #bed #bristol #channel #comfort

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood