Quotes About Reality

I'm not sure how I see things anymore," Mitch said. "Having your body jerked around by nature is sobering. Women experience it more directly, but this has got to be a first for the men.

Washington eats truth and shits spin.

In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.

Living things see only the surface, can't exist in the depths. Life is painted on the surface of the real. Death is the great unexplored volume. Death rises from the inaccessible, depth and death sounding so much alike … There

If the universe agrees that past events are not contradicted by a theory, the theory becomes a template. The universe goes along with it. The better the theory fits the facts, the longer it lasts—if it lasts at all.

The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.

I've asked for Philip K. Dick.

But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation

So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

More often than not, dating a man's potential is the long road to disaster, so listen to who he says he is and take him at his word. If you can love who he is now and not have your attraction be based on who he might become, then you're in good shape. If you're not, well, then you best keep looking because most people have different aspirations than you might have for them.

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

Reality abides in the eyes.

And I learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

something new every time." The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet's naked body sitting astride mine on the patio steamer chair. "That didn't come off Pornhub," Paul says. "That's the real deal.

Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.

Gravity crosses the dimensions, including time," he said.

Wonder is my people attributing the creation of the universe to an act of dismemberment. It is avoiding true mystery through fantasy. And if the universe refuses to conform to your fantasy does it cease to be wonderful That is conceit of the highest order. Nen Yim

reaction. A uniform did not signify safety. Usually, in his experience, it was quite the opposite.

Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

If she pleaded not guilty, David said she could suggest that the boy had been the agressor, or maybe it was all some teenage fantasy that went too far. Maybe the sex never really happened. Mary Kay saw that scenario as ridiculous. Almost laughable. She didn't think it would work. I'm carrying his baby, she said. Scratch that.

But learned personality traits aren't often based on present reality but on a past from which there is no escape.

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