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Quotes About Real

Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Love is more beautiful when it's real.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
The supply of information to which we are exposed thanks to modernity is transforming humans from the equable second fellow into the neurotic first one. […] the second fellow reacts to real information, the first largely to noise. The difference between the two fellows will show us the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem is that they did not want these tables to exhibit any form of regularity. Yet real randomness does not look random!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mi idea es que algunos resultados científicos no sólo son inútiles en la vida real, porque infravaloran el impacto de lo altamente improbable (o nos llevan a ignorarlo), sino que es posible que algunos de ellos estén creando en realidad Cisnes Negros.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.
~ Nathaniel Benchley
It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life's stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they choose to deem higher and more important. Thus
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear. -Scythe Goddard
~ Neal Shusterman
Sorry, Pinocchio, but Risa's not your Blue Fairy. She can't turn you into a real boy.
~ Neal Shusterman
My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?
~ Neal Shusterman
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
~ Charles Bukowski
Have you ever been in love? Love is for real people.
~ Charles Bukowski
Have you ever been in love?" "Love is for real people." "You sound real." "I dislike real people." "You dislike them?" "I hate them.
~ Charles Bukowski
as the fools are fooled again you wonder where the real ones are if there are real ones.
~ Charles Bukowski
Through art alone, the Mexica said, can human beings approach the real. Cut short by Cortés, Mexica philosophy did not have the chance to reach as far as Greek or Chinese philosophy. But surviving testimony intimates that it was well on its way.
~ Charles C. Mann
Qualis Natura formatrix, si talis formata? Oh my God, how fair must be Thy real world, if even Thy phantoms are so fair!
~ Charles Kingsley
Although now that I'm in middle management I'm supposed to call it refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation," or, if I'm being honest, "making it up as I go along.
~ Charles Stross
That looks nasty, I hope you've got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.
~ Charles Stross
It looks like they're doing something purposeful and coordinated, something vast—a timing channel attack on the virtual machine that's running the universe, perhaps, or an embedded simulation of an entirely different universe. Up or down, is it turtles all the way, or is there something out there that's more real than we are?
~ Charles Stross
Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden. The rest of the world is unaware of it.
~ Chinua Achebe
He moved quickly away from her through the ring, his whole body starting forward with the big animal in two-point and then -- the horse's legs extended before and behind her, a carousel pony but real, the immense thrust invisible to anyone but the boy on the creature's back -- he was rising, rising, rising. . . And aloft.
~ Chris Bohjalian
I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.
~ Janet Varney
The audience will show up if you have authenticity. Like 'Moonlight,' there was stuff in there that is so specific to that community where the filmmakers grew up. Even if I don't understand everything they're talking about, I will love it if I feel that it's real.
~ Keiko Agena