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Source: Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals

“For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.”

“The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.”

Life Is Audience Growing Aging Silent Imaginary

Author:Mason Cooley

“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

“I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.”

World Children Two Ideas War Real Reality Streets Clubs Boxing Real World Imaginary Burned Realism Other Worlds Orphan Two Worlds Imaginary World

Author:Norman Mailer

“Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy.... Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream.”

Two Dream Past Moving Joy Lines Dark Known Periods Sorrow Eternity Disappointment Prosperity Yesterday Division Imaginary Acquaintance Fractions Morrow

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.”

World War Running Lines Numbers Steps History Thousand Garden Empty Remains Rounds War Of The Worlds Emptiness World War Ii Holocaust Imaginary World War I Cradle Skeletons Embryos

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”

Men World Art Real Courses Loses Fate Accounts Prime Misfortunes Imaginary Real Friends Imaginary Friend Prime Of Life

Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.”

Hard Roles Cry Emotional Hard Work Creatures Models Role Models Imaginary Bipolar Giddy Good Role Models

Author:Tom Kenny

“Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.”

Real Sex Imaginary

Author:Mason Cooley

“Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.”

Real Pain Joy Imaginary

Author:Mason Cooley

“But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality”

Real Reality Process Class Notion Appeals Discussion Transition Imaginary Entity Rats Propositions Nexus Terriers

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.”

Should Two Thirds Surface Spheres Imaginary Angle Proposal Triangles

Author:Johann Heinrich Lambert

“Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.”

Fear Circumstances Offers Protect Safety Imaginary Safety Net Nooses Dosage

Author:Gina Barreca

“A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.”

Ifs Book Real Reading Reader Imaginary

Author:Margaret Atwood

“It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.”

Thinking Said Desire Objects Imaginary Agony Objects Of Desire

Author:T. S. Eliot

“All the literati keep An imaginary friend.”

Friendship Friends Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:W. H. Auden

“The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.”

Has Beens Order Space Poet Distance Deeds Breathe Historian Imaginary Time And Space Revive

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.”

Ifs World Children Real Reality Wish Imagination Fantasy Achieve Easier Demand Contact Frustration Real World Imaginary Tolerate Gratification Intervals Excursions

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.”

Men Enjoy Liberty Special Democratic Average Libertarian Nine Imaginary Outlaw Democratic Society Average Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.”

People Thinking Writing Hours Imagination Fantasy Impossible Sitting Excuse Imaginary My Imagination Daydreaming Sitting Down

Author:Patricia A. McKillip

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.”

Order Results Independent Practicals Combination Operations Engines Quantity Imaginary Attainment Suggesting

Author:Ada Lovelace

“One of the most tragicomic things in life is that when a man makes an imaginary thing - such as a religion - as his own flag and carries it all his life and even dies for it! An intelligent man has only one flag: Flag of reason and science!”

Men Life Reason Science Life Is Dies Intelligent Carrie Flags Imaginary Things In Life Intelligent Man Imaginary Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

“I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.”

Inspirational Mean Motivational Funny Imaginary Imaginary Friend

Author:Olivia Wilde

“I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.”

World Children Stories Desire Love Is Groups Creating Theater Burning Cinema Imaginary Burning Desire Imaginary World

Author:Jeremy Irons

“I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.”

Thinking World Should Ideas Would Be Courses Fine Imaginary Linked Encyclopedia Imaginary World

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.”

Perfection Imaginary Krishna Gita

Book:The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

“Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.”

May Black Fire Events Theory Holes Upset Apples Strings Horizon Spheres Imaginary Colleagues Calculations Incomplete Don't Trust Carts Black Hole Event Horizon String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.”

Thinking Sat Imaginary

Author:Jim Jefferies

“Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Writing Mean Song Painting Music Is Imaginary Canvas Amazing Things

Author:Lou Reed

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