Real Things Quotes - Page 14

• Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

  Peter Heller

  Real, Too Late, Ends

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.215, Vintage

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• What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Sex, Real

  "The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

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• Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Kids, Want

  "Woody Allen Interview – Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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• This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Real, Believe

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• No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Matter, Plans

  "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

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• The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.

  Lucian

  Real, Luck, Pieces

  Lucian of Samosata (1905). “Works of Lucian of Samosata (Complete Four Volumes)”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, Demonstration, Having Hope

  "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie" by Craig R. Whitney, p. C18, archive.nytimes.com. May 23, 1989.

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• I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Real, Tree, Principles

  Letter to Arthur Griggs, June 22, 1920.

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• She looks like the real thing
  She tastes like the real thing
  My fake plastic love
  But I can't help the feeling
  I could blow through the ceiling
  If I just turn and run.

  Thom Yorke

  Real, Blow, Fake

  "Song: 'Fake Plastic Trees'". 1995.

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• When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Ideas, Trying

  "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.

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• I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

  Bill Gaither

  Real, Heart, Artist

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• Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

  David Farland

  Powerful, Real, Unique

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• As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Clever, Real, Stupid

  "Equal Time" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 23, 2005.

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• I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.

  Trina Robbins

  Art, Real, Teaching

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

  Agatha Christie

  Real, Stage Performance, Perfection

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Crooked House”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

  Muriel Spark

  Sex, Real, Mind

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.75, Northwestern University Press

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• The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Real, Men

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.83

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• Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

  Andrew Motion

  Pain, Real, Alive

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• I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Real, Long

  Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”

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• There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, People, Body

  "US Futurologist Michio Kaku: 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Real, Law, Giving

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.32, Read Books Ltd

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• One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way.

  Pete Holmes

  Hurt, Real, Feel Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

  Ellen Kushner

  Real, Dark, Roots

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