Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur...
Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
We can’t have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
In every woman’s life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.
A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
That’s how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.