Reality Quotes
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Ideals are the world's masters.
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My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
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People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
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“The deeper we get into reality, the more numerous will be the questions we cannot answer.”
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I think we create our own reality by the thoughts we have. Recovery for me has been learning how to choose my thoughts, learning how to listen to my thinking and not choose the negativity. I don't have fights with people in supermarkets anymore. I honestly thought for years that my rage was who I was, that people who didn't think the way I thought were lying to themselves.
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You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.
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Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
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…the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.
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Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
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I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
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The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
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We sift reality through screens composed of ideas. (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language, by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.
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A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.
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I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
