Reality Quotes - Page 26

• Reality is only just a word.

  Harry Chapin

  Song: Corey's Coming, 1976

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• Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Optimistic, Mean, Optimism

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 21, 2016

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• Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Air Guitar, Air, Guitar

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• Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

  Elmer Rice

  Art, Strikes, Art Is

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Differences, Typewriters

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Art, Self, Symphony

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• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Profound

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• The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

  Reginald Ray

  Stars, Fire, Ego

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• Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Two, Quality, Kind

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• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

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• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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• In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Thinking, World

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• It's all about synthesis, you don't have to be a real musician. You just synthesize your own reality, synthesize your own talents. Welcome to the electronic age.

  Klayton

  Real, Age, Musician

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• History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, History Of Life, Daily Life

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• History never embraces more than a small part of reality

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Embrace, Small Parts

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• Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Ignorance, Errors, Exclusion

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• I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

  James Turrell

  Thinking, Different, Like You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.

  Naomi Campbell

  Cameras, Done, Way

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Reading, Understanding

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Ice, Wind

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.

  Mark Gonzales

  World, Poetic, Hardcore

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  War, Talking, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

  Jonas Mekas

  Moments, Celebrate, Happens

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Reflection, Thinking

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Believe, Artist, Who I Am

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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