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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, Lying, Knowing

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Graduation, Stupid, Mean

  "The Sandman. #36: I Woke Up And One Of Us Was Crying". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

  Juliet Marillier

  World, Steps, Wonder

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles”, p.397, Macmillan

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• Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

  J. M. Coetzee

  J. M. Coetzee (2005). “Slow Man”, Viking Press

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• Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

  Gong Ji-young

  Children, Violence, Adults

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• This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Going Away, Principles

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• The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

  George Soros

  Would Be, Events, Imagine

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Air, Years, Doubt

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• I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Heart, Self

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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• To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

  Rupert Everett

  Brave, Soldier, Special

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• A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

  Jonah Hill

  Generations, Comedy, Emotion

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

  Jon Meacham

  Thinking, Inspire, One Day

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• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Sky, Wake Up

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

  Shania Twain

  Wealthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  Olivia Wilde

  Optimism, Fearless, Risk

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• Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Google, Networking, Social

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• I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Sorry, Grief, Loss

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

  Christopher Morley

  Sleep, Average, Doubt

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.129, Melville House

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• The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Darkness, Horror, Trouble

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• Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

  Alice Sebold

  Doors, Blood, Red

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

  George Orwell

  Past, Sea, Monsters

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Simple, Light, Hands

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Air, Blood, Years

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• Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

  Milan Kundera

  Reality, Ideas, Gaps

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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