#real

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#amazing #amazing people #face #gotten #great

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character. ↗

— Lisa See

#about #because #character #characters #create

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#narrative #on-fiction #reality #story #life

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. ↗

— André Breton

#fuck-work #life #nadja #surrealism #work

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#god #put #really #want #why

No matter what happens inb life,be good to people.Being good to people is a wondrfull legacy to leave behind ↗

— A.L.N. Aspeo

#life

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#comes #doing #everybody #follow #happy

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure. ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#structure #life

as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships. ↗

— James K. Morrow

#real-life #life