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Reality Quotes
"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 know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things."
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"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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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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"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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"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"People don't change just because you know more about them."
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"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
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"Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality."
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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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"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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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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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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"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."
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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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"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!"
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"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."
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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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"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
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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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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
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