Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.
Alex: It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
You don't get second chances in the real world.
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?
