Real Life Quotes

• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Real, Carpe Diem

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press

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• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Happiness, Real

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t be sad by what you see
  It’s true life has it’s miseries
  But one thing’s always worked for me
  Worry ends when faith begins.

  Sami Yusuf

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Song: Worry Ends

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Literature, Littles

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

  Nelson DeMille

  Life, Real, Dresses

  "Latest from DeMille brings terror home to America" by Jonathan D. Austin, cnn.com. February 17, 2000.

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• The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

  Armistead Maupin

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Armistead Maupin: San Francisco's chronicler calls time on his saga" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Not all the monsters have fangs.

  Jack London

  Real, Monsters, Fangs

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• The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

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• I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Work, Drinking

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 31, 1975.

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• You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Life, Cutting, Reality

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• The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

  Dylan Moran

  Witty, Real, Character

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

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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• Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Real, Self, Practice

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• I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.

  Benjamin Watson

  Attitude, Real, Men

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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• In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Real, Laughing, Unhappy

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• It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
  all, and I recommend to you this moral:
  In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  Ogden Nash

  Real, Women, Gentleman

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  Ogden Nash

  Real, Quarrels

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

  Christina Stead

  Real, Likes, Obscenity

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.213, The Miegunyah Press

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• The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

  Wallace Stegner

  Real, Character, Two

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