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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

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Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

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But art is so much more real than life. Some art is much more real than some life, I mean.

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She's a real woman, the kind that can't look after herself.

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His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

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Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

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A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

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