How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
Under each station of the real, another glimmers.
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
The suffering itself is not so bad; it’s the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I’m addicted to – I’m a master at “Angry Birds.”
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
In a novel, if you’re any good, you don’t just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
That’s the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it’s real.
I don’t feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there’s a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you’re not a national.
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.