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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."

Real Regret Sorry
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault."

Real Faults Damage
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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise."

Real Mind Wife
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"Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all."

Real Broken Passionate
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

Want Real Desire
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"The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine."

Real Dream Secret
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination."

Real Imagination Despair
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Ray Bradbury Author
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"For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule."

Real Book Running
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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent."

People Real Often Can
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."

Real Funny Military
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting."

Real Home Drama
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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."

Men Real Work
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Thomas Frank Author
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"They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them."

Real Party Laughing
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."

Real Christian Jesus
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