“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
Bill Bryson (1951) American author
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
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Bill Bryson (1951) American author
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter
Quote in Gainsborough's letter, 14 Sept. 1767, to his friend William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. Mary Woodall, 1961
1755 - 1769
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
"A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)
“I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.”
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) American and French sculptor
Jacques Lipchitz cited in: Bertie Charles Forbes (1992) Forbes, Vol. 149, Nr. 5-9, p. 424
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) Indian revolutionary
Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh (1986), p. 65
Context: I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
“If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.
“The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.”
Honoré de Balzac book Séraphîta
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 4: The Clouds of the Sanctuary.
“I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.”
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)