#imaginary

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#cake #i #i am #imaginary #into

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

#characters #create #events #feel #happen

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#bear #harder #imaginary #ones #queer

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head. ↗

— Lee Ryan

#head #i #imaginary #still #talk

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

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#art #creating #gardens #imaginary #real