"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Love is not a feeling it is an ability"
— Steve Carell

"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
— Various (Holy Bible: Nestle-aland Novum Testamentum Graece)

"A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house!"
— Jennifer Wilson

"Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking"
— Anita Roddick

"A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark."
— Frances O'Roark Dowell (The Secret Language of Girls)

"Life is serious but art is fun!"
— John Irving

"Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work."
— Sarah Rees Brennan

" The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.""
— Vladimir Nabokov (Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle)

"... as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships."
— James Morrow (Nebula Awards 27)

"You BECOME, the horse said to the rabbit. It doesn't happen all at once. It takes a very long time. Generally by the time you are REAL most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But those things don't matter, because once you are real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
— Margery Williams Bianco (The Velveteen Rabbit)

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
— Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)

"We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them."
— David Zindell (Neverness)

"Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?"
— Takehiko Inoue

"Here, I'm supposed to tell her the truth. I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
In a way, being an addict is very proactive.

A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life."
— W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage)

"And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation."
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

"A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark."
— Frances O'Roark Dowell

"Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one."
— Black Elk (Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux)

"Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free."
— C. Terry Warner (Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves)

"Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind."
— David Zindell (The Broken God)

"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Don't make me come down there!"
— -God

"Even though life will get you down don't get caught up in your own misery when some one has it a lot worse then you do."
— Patty Green

"
All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
"
— Travis Bickle

"We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real."
— Ruth Rendell (One Across, Two Down)

"He who makes a beast of himself removes himself from the pain of being human."
— Dr. Samuel Johnson

"Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun?
You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place?
Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother."
— Takehiko Inoue

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— John Beck

"The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms."
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard)

"A Girls Gotta Do What A Girls Gotta Do!!!"
— hmmmmmm

"White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions"
— David Porush

"I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?"
— Richard Hugo (The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing)

"I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees."
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (The Palace)

""When there is a will, there is a way""
— Alireza Ashrafi

"Settling other people's land is an American tradition."
— Ariel Gore (Atlas of the Human Heart: A Memoir)

"this was an outstanding family subject in our real life."
— Rohinton Mistry (Family Matters)

"In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know ourt friends."
— G K Chesterton

"There's no gift better than a story."
— Ariel Dingus