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reality ideas giving
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Charlie Chaplin
real men dust
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. Charles W. Chesnutt
real simple legends
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. Charles Dudley Warner
reality policy
No policy is worth anything outside of reality. Charles de Gaulle
real knowing want
The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place. Charles de Lint
real book people
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
real umpires long
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
real writing character
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.
real thinking analogies
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
mean meanness nations
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. Charles Sumner
mean talking spite
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
mean
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
mean thinking people
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
mean mind austin
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
mean people competition
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
night shadow hiding
You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
night doors hands
For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter. Charles Dickens
night liberty sun
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
night people causes
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
night doctors two
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
night men wind
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
night giving church
Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
night air sky
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
night men sky
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. Charles Spurgeon