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Reality Quotes
"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
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"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us."
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"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"
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"Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience."
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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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"This isn't my excuse, this is my reality."
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"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."
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"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."
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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 wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
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"I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor."
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"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."
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"People don't change just because you know more about them."
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
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"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."
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"It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don't damage children much. They didn't damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us."
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"Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows."
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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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"The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars which constitute reality. It is a notion labelled 'God'. It is the Universe equated with the words of our utilitarian vocabulary."
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"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."
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"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."
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"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."
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"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."
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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
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"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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"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."
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"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
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"You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings."
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"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
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"Dominique (who, like other Catamount girls, had a cache of pills for every occasion) offered me a bennie- Benzedrine?- to elevate my spirits. Adamantly I told her, No thanks! I wanted to face what's called reality with my eyes open.I've made that a principle for my life. Sometimes I wonder if this has been a wise decision."
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