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Reality Quotes
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
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"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."
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"No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out."
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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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"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
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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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"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is."
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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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"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"
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"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."
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"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher 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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"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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"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."
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"I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker."
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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
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"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty - and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."
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"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality."
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"Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are."
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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"We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers."
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"If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead."
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"People don't change just because you know more about them."
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"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's the only real one."
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"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."
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"Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible."
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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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"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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"How do you know if something is real? That's easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago and say, "I am a whole different person right now? If yes, then it's real. The evidence of truth and reality, lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it's from very far away. Distance is only the evidence of what can be surpassed."
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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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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
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"There is cost for everything."
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"We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right."
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"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality."
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"We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there."
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"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
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"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
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"Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A."
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."
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"Reality is frequently inaccurate."
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