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• I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

  Robert Wyatt

  Real, Clouds, Nostalgia

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• More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Battle, Lasts

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• Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

  S. E. Hinton

  Real, War, Kids

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.37, Penguin

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• "Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." "Something bad might happen..." "Impossible. But possibly something painful."

  Diane Duane

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force. (Prentice Mulford)

  Rhonda Byrne

  Real, Law Of Attraction, Force

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. 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. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Love You, Labyrinth

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

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• She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Powerful, Real, Night

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• The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

  Gregory Maguire

  Real, Dragons, Evil

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• I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Falling In Love, Real, Moving

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• Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Kissing, World

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• Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Somewhere Else, Live In The Moment

  "Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith".

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• Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

  Jill Scott

  Real, Love Is, Appreciate

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• Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels.... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing.

  Gozo Shioda

  Real, People, Trying

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• Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen.

  Eicca Toppinen

  Real, Trends, Happens

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• I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

  Megan Fox

  Karma, Real, Ideas

  "Megan Fox calls 'Jonah Hex' shoot 'intense'" by Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. June 16, 2010.

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• No, I was never that kind of guy. I believed in true romance; one-night stands are always going to leave you feeling cold and empty. I was always looking for the real thing, romance, and all that. I love being married. I never liked the idea of going to bars and chasing girls. Some guys might enjoy that, but I always wanted to find that one special woman, which I did when I met Jenna.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Real, Night

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• I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Christian, Prayer, Real

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• You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Real, Two

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• Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.

  Frida Kahlo

  Real, Order, Profound

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• This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket on the ground. We, the uninitiated, only see the blanket. Lift it up and that's what our elders... see - the real thing - a world most of us will never know or understand. Through their paintings, artists... offer us a glimpse of the world of dreams where the past, present and the future link.

  Hetti Perkins

  Dream, Art, Father

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

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

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• Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late.

  Bill Ballance

  Falling In Love, Real, Love Is

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• Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Doe, Looks

  Michael Crichton (2001). “Airframe”, p.336, Ballantine Books

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