Quotes About Reality

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l'autre; vous êtez foutus.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world, our only link. (…). Restoring our belief in the world – this is the power of cinema

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

The organism is a diversion of life, whereas abstract line is life itself.

Bireyin yaÅŸam?, kiÅŸisiz olmayan fakat buna raÄŸmen iç ve d?? yaÅŸam?n kazalar?ndan, yani gelmekte olan?n nesnelliÄŸinden ve öznelliÄŸinden özgürleÅŸmiÅŸ saf bir olay? yayan bir yaÅŸama yer açmaktad?r.

Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of the theory of Ideas.

Real?, adev?rat?, este doar devenirea îns??i, blocul de devenire, nu niÈ™te termeni presupuÈ™i ficÈ™i în care s-ar transforma cel care devine. ... Devenirea-animal a omului este real? f?r? ca animalul care devine omul s? fie real. ... o devenire nu are un subiect distinct de ea îns??i... (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari)

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. ? Gilles Deleuze

Becoming is an antimemory.

This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know their husbands.

Daydreams can be dangerous.

Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

Nick loved me. A six-o kind of love: He looooooved me. But he didn't love me, me. Nick loved a girl who doesn't exist. I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

There were a lot of people who deserved a lesson, deserved to really understand, that nothing came easy, that most things were going to go sour.

That's how screwed up you are, I thought. Your idea of adulthood still comes from picturebooks.