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When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.
Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts.
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway? My Character has been deformed out of reality by his own nihilism, his own metaphysical nothingness.
Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
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.
Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.
The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.
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.
The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.
When dealing with imaginary problems, denial works best.
If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
I reserve my right to be complex.
Imagine others complexly.
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
Not real can tell us about real.
When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend.
This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.
A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences.
Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard.
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
I've gone crazy and now so have my imaginary friends.
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
Real is as real does.
Writers fly with imaginary wings.
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
Real isn't what you are; it;s something that happens. And right now, you need something good to happen to you.
I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
Just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.
Up till a minute ago it felt so real, but now it seems imaginary. Just a few steps is all it takes for everything associated with it to lose all sense of reality. And me
the person who was there until a moment ago
now I seem imaginary too.
Real, but sometimes beautiful.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
I'm not real. I'm theatre
This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.
Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.
As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation.
I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.
I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
Remember me, I'm real.
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
An imagined reality is not a lie.
But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real.
I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.
Am I trying to create a real problem to drive away my imaginary ones?
Most of our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?
There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.
Nothing in this world is real
Imaginary friends often leave without warning.
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as real as his creator
I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.
I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
To align oneself with the real while intimating that others are at play, approximate, or in imitation can feel good. But any fixed claim on realness, especially when it is tied to an identity, also has a finger in psychosis.
The domain of the imagination is reality.
Nothing is real unless it is observed
If you can be anything, be real.Real-- Nikki Rowe
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.
Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.
Real or not real?
if you take a positivist position, as I do, questions about reality don't have any meaning. All one can ask is whether imaginary time is useful in formulating mathematical models that describe what we observe.
Everything you can imagine is real.
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.
My life exists in an imagined reality.
We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.