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Reality Quotes
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows."
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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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"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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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
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"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
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"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."
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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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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 wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality."
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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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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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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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"This isn't my excuse, this is my reality."
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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
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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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"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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"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 a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."
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"I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show."
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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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"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"
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"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks."
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"But that's why you're upset now. Fiction is not life.''You don't believe that.''I think I do.''You know as well as I do that the line can't be drawn, that we're infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it's inescapable.''Don't be a sophist,' he said. 'There is a world and it's palpable.''I don't mean that,' I said. 'I mean that it's hard really to see it, that it's all hazy with out dreams and fantasies."
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"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"
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"We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real."
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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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