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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. — Ned Rorem
I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader. — Kate Bosworth
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found… — Joshua Lederberg
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and… — Phyllis Schlafly
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. — Leonardo da Vinci
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in… — Peter L. Berger
The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people! — Darren Rowse
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic… — Terry Pratchett
Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. — Phil McGraw
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys. — B. C. Forbes
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Weil
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. — Norman Mailer
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems… — Theodore Roethke
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is… — Anne Lamott
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life. — Jeanette Winterson
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real… — Matthew McConaughey
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh

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