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Reality Quotes
"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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"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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"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 write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
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"If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Our reality is a blend of the impossible becoming possible."
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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
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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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"No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out."
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"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."
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"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one's own personal reality."
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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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"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality."
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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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"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
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"One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness."
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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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"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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"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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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
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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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"It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen."
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"A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better."
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"There is cost for everything."
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