Claire Coffee Quotes

I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

How plotless real life was!

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Life too near paralyses art.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.

School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.