Real World Quotes - Page 6

• That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

  Frederik Pohl

  Real, Fiction, Literature

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• After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

  Boris Spassky

  Real, Hypocrisy, People

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• Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Real, Magic, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, People, Laughing

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume I - The Years, The Waves”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Real, Self, World

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• In the real world, you can make your own miracles.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Miracle, World

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.240, Penguin

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• ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.

  Lynne Truss

  Real, Winning, Phones

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• This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Miracle, Special

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.240, Penguin

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• To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.35, Pluto Press

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• In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

  Steven Levitt

  Real, Law, People

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2010). “SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Real, Character

  "How Emmanuel Carrère Reinvented Nonfiction" by Wyatt Mason, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2017.

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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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• As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Girl, Real

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

  Lev Grossman

  Meaningful, Real, Interesting

  "Goodreads" interview, www.goodreads.com. August, 2009.

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• I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Nice, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.226, Macmillan

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• Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you can’t love someone else.” - Georgina to Brandy

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.78, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Cutting, Cities

  Tahir Shah (2010). “The Caliph's House”, p.1, Random House

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• the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Book, Editors

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• The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Real, Sleep

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Mom, Dad

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

  Sara Zarr

  Real, World, Too Much

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• The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

  David Eddings

  Teacher, Real, Nice

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• And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Islands, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, Principles, Pepsi

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