We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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I think it's my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition

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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. — J.K. Rowling

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The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

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Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

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