Real Things Quotes

• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  Donald Trump

  Flirting, Hate Him, Real Women

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: How to Get Rich”, p.223, Random House

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• You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Stupid, Writing

  "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

  Aesop

  Real, Men, Originality

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lonely, Real, Writing

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sweet, Real, Kissing

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

  Garth Stein

  Real, Believe, Mirrors

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Real, Eye, Joy

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• What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Ideas, Example

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• It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

  Ann Brashares

  Real, Size, Delusion

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.163, Penguin

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• I was doing science," Giddon said. "He threw a bean." "I was testing the impact of a bean upon water," Bann said. "That's not even a real thing." "Perhaps I'll test the impact of a bean upon your beautiful white shirt.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Real, Impact

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Labyrinth, Wire

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

  Emilie Autumn

  Pain, Real, Believe

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• A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Dream, Real, People

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• A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Real, Heart, Steampunk

  Dru Pagliassotti (2017). “Clockwork Heart”, p.88, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

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• It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

  Maureen Johnson

  Real, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Angel, Fighting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Arbitrary, Done

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.39, Booklassic

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• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Real

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Differences

  H.P. Lovecraft (2002). “Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft”, p.53, Del Rey

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Real, Eye, Pyramids

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.112, Feral House

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• It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Thinking, Haunting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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