#imagined

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. ↗

— Imran Khan

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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. ↗

— Martin Short

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No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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What is now proved was once only imagined. ↗

— William Blake

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I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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