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“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”

World Heart Said Book Real Able Universe Space This World Mom Quiet My Favorite My Mom Museums Imaginary Plunge Places To Go Real Ones Favorite Places Escapists Imaginary World Quiet Space

Book:Die for Me

Source: Die for Me

“We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.”

Real Reason Real Ones

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”

Inspirational Real Self Scared Innovators Counterfeit Real Ones Self Confident

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one”

World Heart Said Real Mom My Mom Imaginary Real Ones Escapists Imaginary World

Book:Inside the World of Die for Me

Source: Inside the World of Die for Me

“All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.”

World Should Two Different Real Novelists Unreal Different Worlds Real Ones Two Different Worlds

Author:John Fowles

“When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.”

Firsts Real Shows Guy Work Known East Fake Village Cop Nerd Foam Real Ones Vests Bulletproof East Village Bulletproof Vest

Author:Jason Wiles

“As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.”

World Wells Real Faces Focus Encounters Barriers Self Knowledge Inner World Outer Worlds Real Ones

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.”

“In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.”

Way Giving Real America Fall Growth Cities Tree Wind Stronger Structure Forests Giants Gaps Tall Coast Jungle Hurricanes Knocking North America Real Ones Asphalt New Growth

Author:Alan Weisman

“My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.”

Said Real Monsters Aliens Real Ones Aliens Movie

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”

Knows Way Want Writing I Can Real Can Do Stranger I Can Do It Real Ones

Book:Gertrude Stein: Selections

Source: Gertrude Stein: Selections

“My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.”

Writing Humans Heart Real Faces Mouths Mirrors Corners Foreheads Real Ones Human Faces

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.”

World May Different Real Form Common Obvious Real Ones

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.”

Thinking Men Wells Real Science Fun Fiction Intelligent Science Fiction Lovely Clever Real Ones Lovely Man

Author:Lalla Ward

“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

May Real Past Cities Periods Forgotten New Orleans Boston San Francisco Magnificence Real Ones

Author:A. J. Liebling

“Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.”

May Mean Ideas Real Facts Hours Brain Taken Five Minutes College Friends Conversation Waste Despite Phrases Imaginary Ceremony Five Minutes Real Ones Master Ceremony

Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.”

Real Wish Disappointment Real Ones

Author:Nastassja Kinski

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