- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Harsh Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
- Nov 07, 2020
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gravity Falls' normally follows very particular rules: we start out in reality close to the world as we know it, usually one magical element presents itself, and then it's essentially vanished or hidden back to where it came from by the end of the 20 minutes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020