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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
Source: The State of the Art (1991) 75 -
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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