Real Life Quotes - Page 17

• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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• I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Rebel, Feels

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• I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Real, Princess

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• I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

  Alberto Sordi

  Real, Simple, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

  Helen Garner

  Lonely, Real, Somewhere Else

  Helen Garner (2011). “Monkey Grip”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  Gary Kemp

  Real, Past, Years

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• Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Regret, Real

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• When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dream, Real, Forever

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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, Unhappy

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• But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set. Peeta's attempt to continue speaking. The camera knocked down to record the white tiled floor. The scuffle of boots. The impact of the blow that's inseparable from Peeta's cry of pain. And his blood as it splatters the tiles.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Real, Blow

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1159, Scholastic Inc.

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• Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Mistake, School

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, School, Personality

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God, did it feel real—there was no magic ʺstopʺ in real life. If she couldnʹt deal with loneliness in a dream, she never would be able to while waking.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Real, Loneliness

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• It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.208, Chicken House

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• 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.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Nice, Real, Hero

  Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.180, Dell

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• 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.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Real, Guy, Good Movie

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• Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

  Simone Elkeles

  Real, Remote Control

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow

  Simone Elkeles

  Real, Nice, Hero

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Real, Genuine, Existence

  Thomas Bernhard (2011). “Woodcutters”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Choices, Childhood

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

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• That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Real, Unhappy, Trying

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.406, Xist Publishing

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• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Lying, Giving

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Eye, Light

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.220, Penguin

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• Real life doesn't have to suck.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Real

  Jennifer Crusie, Suzanne Brockmann, Emilie Rose, Rachel Lee, Beverly Barton (2010). “Blogger Bundle Volume VIII: SBTB's Harlequins That Hooked You: Anyone But You\Prince Joe\The Millionaire's Indecent Proposal\An Officer and a Gentleman\Keeping Annie Safe”, p.184, Harlequin

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• The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Queens, Powerful

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.75, MIRA

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