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• The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

  Adrienne Rich

  Tunnels, Voice, Broken

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

  Louis Malle

  Memories, Imagination, Depth

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

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• When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Mistake, Heart

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• Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages.

  Douglas Preston

  Crazy, Book, Islands

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• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

  Carlo Ratti

  People, Google, Maps

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• When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

  Allegra Huston

  Father, Firsts, Mets

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• I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Thinking, Space

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• Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

  Richard Branson

  Long, Magic, Needs

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• Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Drawing, Real Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.138, A&C Black

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• We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Imagination, Missing, Attention

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• A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Foxes, Grapes

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• The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Work, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Littles, Novel

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.95, Penguin

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• We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, Cells, Tears

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• The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Connections

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.25, Editora Dracaena

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• The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Thieves, Credit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Temples, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Abiding, Merit

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• Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Imaginary

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• Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

  Mason Cooley

  Matter, Facts, Description

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• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Rude, Feelings, Age

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• Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

  Mason Cooley

  Pain, Joy, Imaginary

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• But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
  Process and Reality

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Class, Rats, Transition

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• [Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Honesty, Ignorance

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• Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

  Tana French

  Coffee, Believe, Mean

  Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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