#unreal

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. ↗

— Emily Procter

#always #careful #clothes #could #deserve

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#ability #definition #need #new

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#come #day #deliverance #figures #illusory

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #perfectionism #thinness #unrealistic #love

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

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

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#apt #best #books #elders #hundred

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#assailed #environment #even #fantastic #feeling