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Real Quotes
On staying grounded in what's real.
This set plays with double meanings, from researchers chasing clever ideas over practical relevance to a footballer's memories of a transfer away from a famous Spanish club. For more on genuine feeling, see Like.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only 1 to 2 percent of adults have a real food allergy. This gluten thing is a... whatever. It's not an allergy for most people.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
- Nov 07, 2020
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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