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Reality Quotes
"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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"I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger."
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"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
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"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."
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"People don't change just because you know more about them."
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"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more."
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"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."
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"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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"For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ['Another empty room']"
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"I've learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in."
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"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."
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"We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight."
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"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
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"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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"It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
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"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
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"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
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"I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table."
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"You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live."
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"It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to."
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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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"I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel."
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
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"Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows."
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