"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Faeces by any other name would smell as gross."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In this universe, all we perceive is a virtual reality created by the neurons."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Future, Inspirational

"Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Many people still feel so scared about spirit or ghost, not yet realizing that there are so many unidentified living creatures on this planet earth which might be even more dreadful."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Reality, Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reality, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."

Environment, Literary, Sense, Writer

"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."

Creativity, Ideas, Consequences, Learning, Students

"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."

Irony, Fate, Meaning, Interpretation

"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"

Courage, Faith, Surrender, Intensity, Calling

"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."

Luck, Patience, Realization, Time

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

Loss, History, War, Sensitivity

"I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with political fiction - Dickens, Dostoyevsky. But even Tolstoy got really tiresome when he was talking about the serfs. You have to let characters be characters, not [gruff voice] Mr Capitalism or [girlie voice] Miss Anti-Fur."

Writing, Politics, Art, Creativity

"Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it."

Fate, Death, Resistance, Meaning

"And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?''To live,' said Camilla.'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm."

Desire, Beauty, Existence, Longing

"Not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am."

Belonging, Home, Acceptance, Presence, Freedom