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• If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

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• Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Kids, Parent, Way

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Journey, Miracle

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “How To Know God”, p.215, Random House

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• Only by love is life made real.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love Is, Made, Love Is Life

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

  Freddie Mercury

  Thinking, Real Me, Knows

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• Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Contradictory, Rate

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.141, Bantam

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• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

  Ramakrishna

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Enough

  "Ramakrishna and His Disciples". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 263, 1965.

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• The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Kindness, Compassion, Essentials

  Eknath Easwaran (2012). “Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down”, p.128, Nilgiri Press

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Liars, Hero, Fighting

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

  George S. Patton

  Fighting, Biting, Boring

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 5. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Law, People

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• The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

  Samuel Beckett

  Two, Evil, Boredom

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

  Samuel Beckett

  Would Be, Departure, Study

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Found, Made

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• Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Names, Long, Desire

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

  Vanna Bonta

  Pain, Real Pain

  "Rewards of Passion: Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

  Horace Walpole

  Family, Castles, Ancient

  Horace Walpole, G. M. B. (1840). “The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author”, p.2

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• The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Danger, Representation

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• I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

  Ted Cruz

  Change, Believe, Law

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• Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Faults, Virtue

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• If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Passion, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.122

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• Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

  David Levithan

  Love, Games, Teens

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• The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ideas, Realms, Battlefields

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