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• We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

  Tennessee Williams

  Real, Two, Levels

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.317, New Directions Publishing

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• Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Women, Silly

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• In marriage you got to go through the same struggles as a relationship, that's if the relationship is real, because there's a lot of non-real relationships going on in the world right now. And I think that's just because of the day and age we're in, a lot of these relationships are taking place over text messages, it's not real substance. But when you got a real one, it's already like a marriage.

  J. Cole

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  A. J. Liebling

  Real, Past, New Orleans

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• I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

  Lalla Ward

  Clever, Fun, Real

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

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• It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Different, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

  James A. Garfield

  Real, Party, Issues

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.586, Best Books on

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• Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

  Andy Warhol

  Dream, Art, Real

  "Andy Warhol: a retrospective".

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• There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Character, Hands

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• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Evil, Encounters

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

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• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

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• Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mom, Hate, Real

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• If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.39, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sweet, Real, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

  Florence Welch

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Reflection, Evil

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• A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Imaginary

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• People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, People, Different

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• Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

  Howard Nemerov

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

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• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Answers, Begging

  Dissenting, Priebe and Sons v. United States, 332 U.S. 407, 420, 1947.

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• I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Style, Opponents

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.270, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  A. S. Byatt

  Real, Thinking, Colour

  "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

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