- Dreams
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- 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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is the denial of reality.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, one of the big silver linings of the Simpson trial is the advances we've made in understanding domestic violence as a lethal problem. Before that trial, I think there was a widespread sense that it was a family affair, a normal part of a relationship, not really a crime. The reality is that it's very much a crime, and a very serious one.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020