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• Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfect, Imagine, Choke

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Silly, Effort

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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• To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Lying

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• If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Grateful, Thinking, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, People, Goes On

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Leader, Inspiring Leader

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2014

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• I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives: the parent who punches instead of kissing, the auto accident that takes a loved one, the cancer we one day discover living in our own bodies. If such terrible occurrences were acts of darkness, they might actually be easier to cope with. But instead of being dark, they have their own terrible brilliance. . . and none shine so bright as the acts of cruelty we sometimes perpetrate in our own families.

  Stephen King

  Real, Cancer, Believe

  Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Morning, Hate, Stupid

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.

  Michael Uslan

  Real, Believe, Technology

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• When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Husband

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

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• The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

  Roger Scruton

  Anarchy, Abstract, Intellect

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Inspirational, Children, Stories

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Real, Fiction

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

  Mike Katz

  People, Peers, Want

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• Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

  Michael Shermer

  Reality, Long, Science And Religion

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.125, Macmillan

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• What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Real, Race, Mystery

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• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  Ramakrishna

  Essentials, God Love

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Art, Real

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• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Air, Ivory

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

  Giorgio Morandi

  Believe, Tree, World

  Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (1997). “Giorgio Morandi”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

  Millar Burrows

  Real, Yale, Views

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