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Reality Quotes


"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."


"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."


"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."


"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."


"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."


"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."


"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker."


"What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality."


"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"


"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."


"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."



"But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."


"We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight."


"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."


"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."


"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."


"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."


"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."


"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."


"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."


"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."


"All the best stories 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."


"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."


"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."


"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."


"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."


"There is cost for everything."


"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."



"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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