Reality Quotes
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
People are living books. The real library of life is community.
We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.
When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.
It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.