Real Life Quotes - Page 26

• But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

  E. B. White

  Real, Imagination, Kind

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.211, Cornell University Press

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• You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Real, Lines, Draws

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.67, A&C Black

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• There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

  Jojo Moyes

  Real, Normal, Hours

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• I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

  Tammara Webber

  Real, Hopeful, Happy Endings

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.281, Tammara Webber

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Cowardice

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• I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Fun, Real, Might

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

  Matthew Quick

  Real, Feel Good, Good Movie

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, Macmillan

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• ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Mirages, Live By

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• Am I going to be able to provide a real home for her, man? An education? A real life? What's her college application going to look like: 'Raised on Spooky Island by wizard with GED, please help'?

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Home, College

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• It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

  Kevin Brooks

  Drama, Real, Cameras

  Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.33, Scholastic

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• When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Real, Toil

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.304, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Real, Book, Replacements

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

  Darren Shan

  Real, Stupid, Cost

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

  Tina Fey

  Real, People, Barbie

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: sisters in comedy rip into the boys' club" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

  Simone Elkeles

  Real, Nice, Littles

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.

  Candace Bushnell

  Block, Real, Thinking

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• It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

  Boris Pasternak

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

  Halle Berry

  Real, Motherhood, People

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• Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Mother, Real, Father

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Real, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Grief, Rivers

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

  David Hasselhoff

  Funny, Real, Hero

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• It's always better to be real.

  Selena Gomez

  Real, Life Lesson, Being Real

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