Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We know how to dream beautifully! And in our dreams we are always extraordinarily active! We cross oceans, found colonies, introduce ideal… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I will be in the afterlife, which as we all know controls the actual life. I will haunt you for the rest… — Christopher Higgs Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there's tons of… — Alex G Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“The actual lifespan of a thought is very short…unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“Consider this an honest look at falling in love, loving yourself, and being loved in the social media age. It’s a guide… — Nev Schulman Copy Share Image
“In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me… — Ibn al-Arabi Copy Share Image
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is gained by gathering data, whereas, Wisdom is earned by going through actual… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
