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• We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, World, Opera

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• Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

  Barbara Holland

  Spring, Real, Winter

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• Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

  Ronald Coase

  Real, Air, World

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• I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Reading, Night

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.61, Random House

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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Laughter, Real

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

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• I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Real, Government, Decision

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Men, Experience

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• 'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him.

  Pascal Mercier

  Morning, Children, Real

  "Night Train To Lisbon".

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• The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Community

  "Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Air, Hands

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• He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Video, World

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• How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Real, War

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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• Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Fiction, World

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• Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Disappointment, Real, Reading

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

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• Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

  Paul Auster

  Real, Moon, Library

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.164, Penguin

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• Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Running, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.66, Random House

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• The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

  Caroline Knapp

  Real, Struggle, Heart

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• If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

  Jasper Fforde

  Life, Real, Book

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “Something Rotten: Thursday Next”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, World, Good Advice

  "I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away". Book by Bill Bryson, June 6, 2000.

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• L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

  Hope Solo

  Real, World, Strange

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• When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

  Robert Smith

  Real, World, Intense

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• The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

  Georges Simenon

  Nature, Real, Lakes

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• When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Real, People

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Media, Expression

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