I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.
I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
Zidler: Remember, a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be... Satine: A real actress.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I th...
The theme of the book is simple: a man is dying: you feel him sinking throughout the book; his thought and his memories pervade the whole with greater or lesser distinction (like the swell and fall of uneven breathing), now rolling up this image, now...
Our sexual fantasies are often redundant and intense, like many other ideas involving ourselves. Most people approach sexuality limited to the idea that they should imitate other people, art (e.g., romantic literature) or movies (e.g., pornography). ...
And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally this is so. Yet is...
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being hal...
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a...
In the real world, the tests are all open book.
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.
But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.
