Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
– Stefanos Livos
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- That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. – Stefanos Livos
- A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold. – Stefanos Livos
- That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. – Stefanos Livos
- Somebody told me I’m a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it. – Stefanos Livos
- Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. – Rebecca McNutt
- If one person has an imaginary friend they’re crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion – Iraniya Naynesh
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking. – Edwin V Mitchell
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones. – Marty Rubin
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul). – Dada Bhagwan
- Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant? – Virginia Woolf
- Your imaginary friend isn’t the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don’t seem to have any real friends. – Rebecca McNutt
- Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. – Mark Williams
- There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones. – Christina Engela
- The imaginary is what tends to become real. – Andr Breton
- Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Everything in this world is the fruit of the imagination. If there is no imaginary garden in our head, we can’t plant a real one. – Bakhtiyar Ali
- Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real -“ – Simona Panova
- What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? – Forrest Carr
- There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. – Anthony Powell
- But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people… – JeanJacques Rousseau
- A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao
- Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. – Erin McCarthy
- As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things. – Fakeer Ishavardas
- A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams – Fabrizio Moreira
- If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it’s real? – Daniel Nayeri
- …the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent… – Maurice MerleauPonty
- the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent… – Maurice MerleauPonty
- Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward -” get real with yourself! – Bryant McGill
- You know it’s real when reality becomes a dream, the dream becomes real, and real feels unreal – Evy Michaels
- Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward -” get real with yourself. – Bryant McGill
- I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real -“ through the Real. – Idries Shah