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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Imagine Easier Memoir Novelists Imaginary Imagine That Imaginary Life

Author:Mark Leyner

“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”

Ifs Humans Looks Reality Eye Remember Human Beings Forget Half Happened Normal Bottom Imaginary Admirable Imaginary Life

Book:Polgara the Sorceress

Source: Polgara the Sorceress

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.”

Ifs Giving Should Self Dream Wealth Possibility Self Love Blind Temptation Compare Imaginary Indulge Flattering Indulge In Hindrance Imaginary Life

Book:Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau

Source: Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”

Mind Real Desire Purpose Existence Labor Shining Vanity Preserves Hypocrisy Neglect Endeavor Imaginary Desire To Live Imaginary Life

Book:Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.”

Writing Children Reading Trouble Lonely Active Imaginary Sane Awkward Reading And Writing Making Friends Socially Awkward Trouble Making Imaginary Life Lonely Child

Author:Roxane Gay

“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.”

Ifs Worry Trouble Fewer Imaginary Overcoming Worry Imaginary Life

Author:Don Herold

“I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Real Able Dark Walks Doors Real Life My Children Shakes Relief Imaginary Dark Days Imaginary Life

Author:Mira Sorvino

“I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.”

People Thinking Important Real Character Names Moved Ships Boat Imaginary Imaginary Life

Author:Paul Auster

“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”

Should Life Is Consciousness Our Lives Mystery Series Edges Painful Setting Settings Pushing Imaginary Life

Author:David Malouf

“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

People Want Different Real Seems Eye Real Life Satisfied Imaginary Imaginary Life

Author:Blaise Pascal

“What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.”

Luxury Grieving Imaginary Imaginary Life

Author:Lisel Mueller