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Real Life Quotes

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don’t think of ourselves as supporting or character actors Picture Quote #1

I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment Picture Quote #1

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It’s a waste, and I don’t find a need to sing my own praises Picture Quote #1

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition Picture Quote #1

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth Picture Quote #1

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them Picture Quote #1

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Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren’t cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg Picture Quote #1

When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home Picture Quote #1

I do care about real life. It’s just not as interesting as what’s in my books Picture Quote #1

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn’t have. He is everything I needed and couldn’t find in real life. Of course he is. That’s why I invented him Picture Quote #1

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever Picture Quote #1

The trouble with real life is that you don’t know whether you’re the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much Picture Quote #1

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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits Picture Quote #1

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous Picture Quote #1

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack Picture Quote #1

I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person Picture Quote #1

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life Picture Quote #1

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else Picture Quote #1

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As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it’s the unhappy ones who create the stories. I’m no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life Picture Quote #1

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there’s nothing to position, calculate, or guess Picture Quote #1

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance Picture Quote #1

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite Picture Quote #1

People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration Picture Quote #1

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them Picture Quote #1

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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today’s world it is a luxury we cannot afford Picture Quote #1

My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives Picture Quote #1

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up Picture Quote #1

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything Picture Quote #1

Life doesn’t have plots and subplots and denouements. It’s just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained Picture Quote #1

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they’re all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record... Back when we were first making records, you didn’t just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing Picture Quote #1

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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don’t think of ourselves as supporting or character actors (Real Life Quotes) I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment (Real Life Quotes) Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It’s a waste, and I don’t find a need to sing my own praises (Real Life Quotes) The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition (Real Life Quotes) Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth (Real Life Quotes) We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them (Real Life Quotes) Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren’t cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg (Real Life Quotes) When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home (Real Life Quotes) I do care about real life. It’s just not as interesting as what’s in my books (Real Life Quotes) He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn’t have. He is everything I needed and couldn’t find in real life. Of course he is. That’s why I invented him (Real Life Quotes) For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever (Real Life Quotes) The trouble with real life is that you don’t know whether you’re the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much (Real Life Quotes) You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits (Real Life Quotes) A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous (Real Life Quotes) We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack (Real Life Quotes) I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person (Real Life Quotes) Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life (Real Life Quotes) Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else (Real Life Quotes) As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it’s the unhappy ones who create the stories. I’m no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life (Real Life Quotes) You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there’s nothing to position, calculate, or guess (Real Life Quotes) I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance (Real Life Quotes) Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite (Real Life Quotes) People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration (Real Life Quotes) One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them (Real Life Quotes) The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today’s world it is a luxury we cannot afford (Real Life Quotes) My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives (Real Life Quotes) You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up (Real Life Quotes) Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything (Real Life Quotes) Life doesn’t have plots and subplots and denouements. It’s just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained (Real Life Quotes) All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they’re all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record... Back when we were first making records, you didn’t just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing (Real Life Quotes)

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