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Quotes About Actuality

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.
~ Christopher Priest
Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
~ Unknown
The story you think you know is never the real one.
~ Lily King
after all, there is such a thing as truth.
~ Victor Serge
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.
~ John Harvey-Jones
Despite all this talk about imagination, we are implacably real.
~ Peter Straub
It was nothing more than what it was.
~ Philip Pullman
It's so much easier when we're talking about things that are real.
~ David Levithan
Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
~ Idries Shah
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.
~ John Hillcoat
There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
~ Jodi Picoult
Everything that does not need you is real
~ W.S. Merwin
Those people who prefer intuition are so engrossed in pursuing the possibilities it presents that they seldom look very intently at the actualities. For instance, readers who prefer sensing will tend to confine their attention to what is said here on the page. Readers who prefer intuition are likely to read between and beyond the lines to the possibilities that come to mind.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
I'm not saying that this is how things should be. I'm saying that this is how things are.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
open possibility (within the plane) to increased probability (in the plateau) to specific actuality (at the peak). As
~ Daniel J. Siegel
The only thing standing in between you and me is reality.
~ Unknown
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
~ Janet Malcolm
The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.
~ Unknown
I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.
~ Machado de Assis
Belief creates the actual fact.
~ William James
Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.
~ John Updike
there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
~ Maurice Sendak
Reality can easily become the current fantasy.
~ Judith Perelman Rossner