#unreal

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#self-actualization #unrealized-potential #life

Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#movie-set #soho #unreal #movies

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football

It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#could #done #elections #government #here

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #glorification #indulge #justification #life

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#get #i #like #more #older

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#america #american #consumer #democracy #living

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. ↗

— Al Gore

#arcane #because #changing #debating #dramatic

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#concepts #how #most #publishing #totally