"I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it."
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"Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct."
"I can't read my poem "Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle" without thinking of Seattle, where the events of the poem took place, and I can't read "In Defense of the Semicolon" without thinking of Toronto - but why should that matter to anyone else? If another reader imagines "In Defense of the Semicolon" taking place in New Orleans, great."
"A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it."
"There are very few things in life I find that are as magical in person as you imagine them to be. Cannes was one of those experiences that held up to that magical essence. It's the epitome of class and elegance for the entertainment industry."
"I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry."
"Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!"
"For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all."
"If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces."
"One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature."
"I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you."
"The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove."
"I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow."
"... you simply can't imagine what men will say!"
"I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine."
"His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable."
"Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete."
"Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension."
"It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now."
"I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?"