We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it’s real and you’re not to blame.
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn’t have to pursue “the real thing.”
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
We’re all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you’re young you’re more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie’s Choice. A daring tour de force.
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Sometimes one’s very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that’s the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person’s genetics.
It’s not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It’s not comfortable what you do.
But there’s so much that was a lie, it’s hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me – the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?