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• The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Drawing, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 38, 1799.

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• There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

  David Letterman

  Courage, Real, Believe

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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  Val Kilmer

  Fake People, Real, Thinking

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• I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Real, Moving, People

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• Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

  Jack Johnson

  Dream, Real, Photograph

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• The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

  LL Cool J

  Real, People, Trying

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• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, Thinking, Ashtrays

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• My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Italian, Thinking

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• I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.

  Al Franken

  Real, Thinking, People

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• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Missing You, Plato, Real

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

  Phyllis Diller

  Real, Laughing, My Own

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.115, Penguin

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• I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.

  Cameron Diaz

  Girl, Real, Jeans

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• As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Real, Artist, Hats

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

  Leonard Cohen

  Real, Two, Fake

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.73, McClelland & Stewart

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• To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Real, Childhood

  Annie Besant (2009). “Autobiographical Sketches”, p.272, Broadview Press

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• I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

  Holly Madison

  Daughter, Mother, Real

  "Holly Madison: Boyfriend Pasquale Rotella and I Are 'Wackos,' Have Pretend Conversations With Our Baby 'All the Time'". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. January 26, 2013.

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Battle, Lasts

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• the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Dream, Real, Journey

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• Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Writing, Interest

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• The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Honesty, Good Life, Real

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Real, Light

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

  Robert Wyatt

  Real, Clouds, Nostalgia

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