- 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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality TV rots people's brains.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
- Financial Markets
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
- Options
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But the reality is that people have lived in Washington for generations, and their lives are worth examining, I think.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020