In the harsh veracity of the real world, he was rich, successful, and one of the most desired bachelors in New York—and I was, well, me. A world I hoped wouldn’t tear us apart by pointing out just how different our lives were. “You’re probabl...
Some people are special because they're princes or princesses; or queens or kings! Some are special because they're presidents and senators; or because you can watch them on film! But what is the stuff that makes any person special? That makes any pe...
I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that to read fiction was to make available for myself a new kind o...
Remember that writing things down makes them real; that it is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know; and, most of all, that even in our post-postmodern era, writing has a moral purpose. With twenty-six shapes arranged in varying patte...
We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) ...
God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.
I'm standing for real freedom.
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
I live a very real life.
In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.
The public is a part of my real life.
A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
REAL TRUTH COMES FROM FACT"..
All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me.
Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.
Her love has been always unrequited, but until now it wasn't real love. Now it hurts, and that's how she knows it is real.
I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
I wanted to, um, apologize for earlier. I can't believe I did that. I didn't think it could be real and—” “Didn’t think what could be real?” …Your penguin.
Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical c...
