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Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.
What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.
Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility.
What if, that afternoon in my office, I had stood and risked fatherhood? Offered him a pair of sheltering arms? Would it have been enough to keep him from going down there and doing what he did? What if? What if? What if? ...
I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.
What if every day, every human had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a turkey, and every turkey had a 1 percent chance of being turned into a human?
Hold on to what if.
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
Only that which happens is possible.-- Franz Kafka
Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!
Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.
The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead.
I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.
No need for explanation you know your scenario... I know my scenario.
preposterous. "If
Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.
Either A is B or C is D," means, "if A is not B, C is D; and if C is not D, A is B." All hypothetical propositions, therefore, though disjunctive in form, are conditional in meaning; and the words hypothetical and conditional may be, as indeed they generally are, used synonymously.
Anything is possible if it happens.
In Your mind, anything is possible...
Could conceivably
I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.
If we were all suddenly somebody else.
But that's the thing with the what -if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones.
Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys.
Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility ...
Imagine the possibilities!
There are unlimited possibilities in life.
I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.
Fiction with its big question of 'what if?' is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Once upon a time, the ability to light a fire was fictitious.
I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions ... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.
I don't speak well as the pictures in my head do. I can't... fully... the possibilities... It's too much to explain all at once. It would be world-changing.
one could drown in irrelevance.
Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
I could do it-because that was the only option. That was the only one I was willing to accept.
History is all about 'what ifs
I believe in possibility.
I could lie my way out of existence.
Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.
Don't focus on the what ifs. Focus on what is.
The Impossible is Always Possible
And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went.
The world would be a better place if ...
I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth.
Step into a world of impossible possibilities.
A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot, which is fine with me. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as a 'what-if' question ...
I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.
And everything would be different, different.
What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them
Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
Suppose you meet me in the woods.
If we don't dream of the possible,
the possible never happens.
No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.
Greater possibilities supersedes mere imagination
This impossibility has happened and therefore isn't impossible.
If one clung too closely to reality, the result might well be far from realistic.
Would you do it if you were me?
If I was you I'd do whatever you would do.-- Edward Abbey
After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.
Put me on a train with no windows where nighttime lasts forever and a speed-mad engineer with a mechanical heart high balls a coal-black engine through time tunnels like a bullet leaving a gun where the speed of darkness is faster than the speed of light.
Here's a thought. What if we were to .
Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
You can imagine anything at all. And real life is never what you imagine.
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
could almost imagine
I guess we all have our own realities
Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable
if she was finished.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
Someone else's personal fantasy may well be your personal nightmare.
'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.
The next time you are imagining the worst, look up the definition of imagination.
I believe in a world of infinite possibilities.
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Life and love would go on. Even though it would happen without me, the idea brought me joy.
We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.
The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. And
How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.
Doesn't matter. It's done. No use fantasizing other scenarios.
We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.
Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.
What if your life depended solely on you?
Imagination, like reality, has its limits.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.
You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.
What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.
I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.
Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened
If I had but the time and you had but the brain
There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.