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Imaginable Quotes (page 69)

Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation. Suzanne Collins
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which. Barbara Pym
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires. Leo Tolstoy
The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth. Lois McMaster Bujold
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. Camille Paglia
She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and tru? she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. Willa Cather
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails. Anais Nin
Terry Prachett quote: "Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going..."
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. Terry Prachett
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. H. P. Lovecraft
After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find. Elizabeth Wurtzel
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh) John Berger
Nikolai Gogol quote: "You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown..."
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write! Nikolai Gogol
Maria Edgeworth quote: "... Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined."
... Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined. Maria Edgeworth
Paulo Coelho quote: "it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined..."
it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be Paulo Coelho
I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost. If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to... Alexis de Tocqueville

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