real-world

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c30924c	There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.	reading books fantasy education jrr-tolkien children-s-literature ayn-rand real-world life-changing lord-of-the-rings	John Rogers
ac95af4	To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative -- the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.	escape reading fiction interpretation real-world narrative escapism storytelling	Umberto Eco
f8b4a23	And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.	life real-world	Chuck Palahniuk
c4efcec	I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down. Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. That's when the stories show up in me. They find me all the time. They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent. The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first. Maybe they all just merge into one. We'll see, I guess. I'll let you know when I decide.	wonder fighters written underdogs real-world streets hunger desire stories	Markus Zusak
93953c2	By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling... But a world without feeling is a world without pain.	pain imagination real-world peace	Daniel Keyes
f35b232	""It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic."	reality real-world longing	Garth Nix
e854603	Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.	suffering faith reality spirituality belief-system conscious-living facing-facts forces-of-nature healing-abuse healing-the-emotional-self healing-trauma human-suffering intellectualism intelligent intelligent-people outlook-on-the-world overcoming-adversity-quotes real-world smart-people sophisticated spiritual-living stepchild suffering-of-humanity worldview-quotes spiritual-quotes worldview mindset healing-the-past power-of-love spiritual-wisdom beliefs realism power-of-thoughts	Marianne Williamson
c4a41f0	Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.	real-world	Robert Ferrigno
e457318	(Tori) (Simon) (Tori) Tori waved at the woods behind our rented house.	tori real-world simon self-defense	Kelley Armstrong

c30924c

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

reading books fantasy education jrr-tolkien children-s-literature ayn-rand real-world life-changing lord-of-the-rings

John Rogers

ac95af4

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative -- the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

escape reading fiction interpretation real-world narrative escapism storytelling

Umberto Eco

f8b4a23

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

life real-world

Chuck Palahniuk

c4efcec

I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside me. I see people walking through the city and wonder where they've been, and what the moments of their lives have done to them. If they're anything like me, their moments have held them up and shot them down. Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. That's when the stories show up in me. They find me all the time. They're made of underdogs and fighters. They're made of hunger and desire and trying to live decent. The only trouble is, I don't know which of those stories comes first. Maybe they all just merge into one. We'll see, I guess. I'll let you know when I decide.

wonder fighters written underdogs real-world streets hunger desire stories

Markus Zusak

93953c2

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling... But a world without feeling is a world without pain.

pain imagination real-world peace

Daniel Keyes

f35b232

""It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic."

reality real-world longing

Garth Nix

e854603

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

suffering faith reality spirituality belief-system conscious-living facing-facts forces-of-nature healing-abuse healing-the-emotional-self healing-trauma human-suffering intellectualism intelligent intelligent-people outlook-on-the-world overcoming-adversity-quotes real-world smart-people sophisticated spiritual-living stepchild suffering-of-humanity worldview-quotes spiritual-quotes worldview mindset healing-the-past power-of-love spiritual-wisdom beliefs realism power-of-thoughts

Marianne Williamson

c4a41f0

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

real-world

Robert Ferrigno

e457318

(Tori) (Simon) (Tori) Tori waved at the woods behind our rented house.

tori real-world simon self-defense

Kelley Armstrong