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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
~ J. G. Ballard ~
There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~
One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.
~ Marvel Bell ~
The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
~ Roger Birkman ~
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
~ Victor Daniels ~
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
~ Fyodor Dostoevski ~
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
~ Norman Douglas ~
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
~ George Eliot ~
A cause a day keeps reality away.
~ Jim Fraser ~
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
~ Erich Gutkind ~
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.
~ Wolfgang Kohler ~
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
~ Al Lee ~
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
~ Bruce Lee ~
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
~ John Lennon ~
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
~ Ralph Marston ~
Reality is something you rise above.
~ Liza Minnelli ~
A theory must be tempered with reality.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~
It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.
~ Mal Pancoast ~
Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
~ Laurence J. Peter ~
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
~ Salman Rushdie ~
The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.
~ Raoul De Sales ~
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
~ Huston Smith ~
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
~ Wallace Stevens ~
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
~ Lily Tomlin ~
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
~ Simone Weil ~
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