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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.


Voltaire
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I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
Liz Williams
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.


Victor Hugo
Tags: Than Would Better
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.


Paulo Coelho
Tags: Always Love Us
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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.


Mary McCarthy
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.


Mackenzie Davis
Tags: Just Lot Stuff
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
Marilynne Robinson
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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.
Emile M. Cioran
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
Octavia Spencer
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
George Washington Carver
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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.
Jim Woodring
Tags: Nature Dreams You
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Jean Baudrillard
Tags: Just Other May
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Imaginary evils are incurable.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Children are the keys of paradise.


Eric Hoffer
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.
Tommy Shaw
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.


Emo Philips
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If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.
Luke Evans
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When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.
Mary Pope Osborne
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