I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.
William Golding
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm interested in the real world. EDWARD BOND There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo... SAUL LEITER Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online. FKA TWIGS Being offended is part of being in the real world. COURTNEY LOVE The telling of stories creates the real world. ALBERTO MANGUEL I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world. WARREN SPECTOR I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG For economist the real world is often a special case. EDGAR FIEDLER You don't get second chances in the real world. GAIL SIMMONS In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds. KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. SUZANNE FARRELL When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. A. R. AMMONS No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. MICHAEL MOORE Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold. ROBERT KIYOSAKI The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. SHIRLEY TEMPLE The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it. MANDY PATINKIN I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow... BOB DYLAN Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts. JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. OSCAR WILDE To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the r... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real... KIM DOTCOM Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world. MARCUS DU SAUTOY Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. ... MICHELE BACHMANN My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real ... ELIZABETH MOON It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG William Eggleston in the Real World MICHAEL ALMEREYDA I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends abou... NORM MACDONALD I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of e... WALTER CRONKITE In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalist... MARK TWAIN But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people.... WILLIAM LANDAY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseveranc... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place... HOZIER The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread... DAVID ULEVITCH The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenag... KATHY GRIFFIN They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. WILLIAM GOLDING I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of l... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ALBERT ELLIS Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of ... RICHARD GERE There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that. REBEL WILSON Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjo... SACHA BARON COHEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that... VICTOR WEBSTER We have to live in the real world and in the real world we generate trash, JACK WOLF I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more ... TEMPLE GRANDIN Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance ... ALAN COX I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have... NORM MACDONALD There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the v... ALICE OSWALD There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS The world is a mystery. This, what you’re looking at, is not all there is to it. There is much mor... CARLOS CASTANEDA Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and n... GIACOMO LEOPARDI I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than... LISA KLEYPAS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the rea... CARLY FIORINA My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. DAN AYKROYD We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happe... MAX BAUCUS Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become d... TONY BLAIR It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and ... CESARE PAVESE From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from... ANDREA SEIGEL I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world ... G. WILLOW WILSON The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original... ANDREA SEIGEL Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. MARK TWAIN When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid.... ~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering. DEEPAK CHOPRA The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and... LYNN FLEWELLING In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries ... SALMAN RUSHDIE Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passa... SYDNEY BRENNER If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and ... DAVE VAN RONK The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need t... HAYAO MIYAZAKI It's not the end of the world to lose. ANDY MURRAY The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together... VERA NAZARIAN Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ... AMY PLUM When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popu... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popu... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. BILL BRYSON I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ... IRIS JOHANSEN Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something,... JANET YELLEN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as th... ROBERT HEINLEIN To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the... ROBERT HEINLEIN
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