“I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.”
Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)
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George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
As quoted in Across My Path (1952) by Pelham Edgar, p. 148
Simone Weil book Gravity and Grace
p. 120 http://books.google.it/books?id=lpuZIgerNroC&pg=PA120 (1997 edition) <br class="br">Gravity and Grace (1947)
“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 212
“Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)
David Sedaris book Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
I'm guessing this comes from having watched too many Second World War movies.
Essay, "Easy, tiger". p.80
Source: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”
Arnold Lobel book Frog and Toad Together
Source: Frog and Toad Together
“(Sylvia) You almost never see a real lady popping out of a cake.”
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 30
“What did I do?" he said. "Cake! It's cake! Delicious cake!”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Last Breath