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Reality Quotes
!["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']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"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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"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"
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"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
39
"I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
39
"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
38
"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."
38
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
35
"I've learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in."
35
"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
35
"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."
35
"We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight."
35
"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
34
"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
34
"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
34
"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
34
"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"
34
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
33
"I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes."
33
"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
32
"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."
32
"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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"It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to."
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