Actual life Quote by Christopher Morley Download Open image ““The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.”” — Christopher Morley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actual life Books Life
“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.” — A.M. Hudson Copy Share Image
“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.” — Joan G. Robinson Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same book twice.” — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
“I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion… They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet… — E.T.A. Hoffmann 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 is of… — Samuel Smiles 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. Actual life… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.” — Deb Caletti 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 of the… — Samuel Smiles 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 which he… — T.S. Eliot 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 couldn't be… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of… — Polybius Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
