#unreal

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#good-society #unreality #art

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

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

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

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#felt #i #i think #know #more

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. ↗

— Suze Orman

#card #create #credit #credit card #down

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