Reality Quotes - Page 163

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are crazy [people]. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis, we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Reality favors symmetry.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Sex sells everything and sex kills.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.

A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it must be used to get rid of war and to establish enduring peace. Here is the supreme test of the effectiveness of religion.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.