Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
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“[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
My music life is great. It's in the real world, that's where I have the problem, sometimes relating to people. I can… — Tricky Copy Share Image
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mind you, no one who lives in the real world spends the whole time going around saying, ‘Oh yes,darling, I understand, let’s… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are… — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into… — Mel Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
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In some ways I spend longer at non-fiction because there are a lot of different threads to bring together. But non-fiction is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When we’re talking about whether or not a story’s “time travel logic” makes sense, it is important to remember that every story… — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
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Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
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