Real Life Quotes - Page 37

• I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

  Mark Helprin

  Real, Mistake, Boys

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• In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango

  Tori Amos

  Sex, Real, Play

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• A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

  George Saunders

  Art, Real, Writing

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Track

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• The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

  Ben Fountain

  Art, Real, Theater

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• Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

  Tom Lehrer

  Children, Husband, Real

  "Alma". Song by Tom Lehrer, 1965.

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• My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

  Nick Cave

  Real, Records, World

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• For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

  Tim Vine

  Real, Pun, One Thing

  "Jeremy and Tim Vine - the unlikeliest double-act around". Saga Magazine Interview, www.saga.co.uk. August 20, 2014.

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

  Leland Ryken

  Art, Real, Greek

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.60, Shaw Books

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• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  Will Shortz

  Real, Book, Historical

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• There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Bullying, Strong, Real

  "Ariana, Bridgit, and Kat Delete Digital Drama". www.seventeen.com. February 26, 2013.

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• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  Ziggy Marley

  Real, Gmo Foods, Gmos

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

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• Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Horse, Real, Riding

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• I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Long, Waiting

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• The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

  James A. Baldwin

  Dream, Real, People

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

  Marc Cooper

  Real, Party, Light

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• In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Real, Wish, Divorced

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• How plotless real life was!

  Anne Tyler

  Life, Real

  Anne Tyler (1992). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Laughter, Real

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Book, Writing

  Ezra Pound (1918). “Pavannes and Divisions”

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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