Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to… — Erwin Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all,… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
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