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Reality Quotes


"We all live partially in reality and partially in a world of make-believe."


"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."


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


"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."


"I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality-the impatient bitch-has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!"


"Good words,' I replied. 'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear."


"A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. ."



"And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity."


"It is so easy to dream but so hard to forget them."


"While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running."


"My date the next night brought a sock puppet with him. A. Sock. Puppet. And he talked to me with it'... 'It completely freaked me out,' Kalani continued. 'I made it through drinks and that was more than enough. I told the guy it was a good thing he had one good hand left because if this was his usual MO for dates, he was going to need it."


"Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags."


"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."


"Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It's so formulaic and unsurprising that you wouldn't dare re-create it in a movie. All the critics would mock it. They'd all say the screenwriter was a hack who didn't even try. This is why movies have less value than we like to pretend - movies can't show reality, because honest depictions of reality offend intelligent people."


"It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience."


"It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."


"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."


"For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!"



"We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ..."


"Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet."


"Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?"


"Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges that it should be resistant should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee."


"To create new reality, change the perception but not the reality."


"To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality."
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