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"Thinkable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her details of the supper with the schoolgirls, but he could not forego the pleasure of mentioning his former simile anent dogs and possession, and he took the occasion to draw her attention to the fact that love without the conception of a right to possession—on both sides—was not thinkable. What was making her cry? The same thing which had made him swear, when she went out with twenty men. The fear of losing him! But one can lose only ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... ludicrous transition to the slang of science. "Granting the possibility of spiritual apparition and even materialization, yet the apparition and materialization of a half-gallon brown clay jug—a piece of coarse, heavy pottery evolved from nothing—that is hardly thinkable." ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce |
Words linked to "Thinkable" : surmisable, ponderable, unthinkable, imaginable, conceivable, believable, possible, cogitable, presumable, supposable, credible |
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