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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés."

Real Hero Milk And Honey
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one"

Real Hate Baby
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Russell Baker Writer
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

Writing Real Work
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"In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation."

Art Real Drawing
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit."

Real Character Teacher
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Jerry Garcia Musician
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"Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time."

Real Spiritual Religious
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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope."

Real Life Struggle
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J. Cole Rapper, songwriter
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"When I first started rapping, when I switched my style to more like a punch line style - this is when I'm like 13 years old - and I switched it to this real wordy - I was trying to rap like Canibus and like Eminem. It was real lyrical, real wordy and punch lines and, when I would come up with these punch lines and spit 'em in these cyphers, the minute the cyphers would be like, "Ohhh" and everybody would break away, it was a new feeling for me. It was like, "Oh, yo, you see what I just did?" I was addicted to that feeling, and I still love that feeling."

Years Real Rap
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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist
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"I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die."

Real Dies Tension
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"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."

Real Details Confusing
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Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist
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"This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space."

Writing Real Distance
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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
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"What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein."

Real Needs Fantastic
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime."

Real Imagination Library
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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
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"Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."

Real Earth Connections
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Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist
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"In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes."

Real Adventure Revenge
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