#real thing

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#child #combine #come #freely #go

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#been #care #guns #hang #i

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#am #because #good #i #i am

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. ↗

— Mae West

#imitation #just #lady #model #real

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#full #like #made #our #our dreams

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. ↗

— Ernest Poole

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