Quotes About Reality

Don't undress my love you might find a mannequin; don't undress the mannequin you might find my love.

you have to accept this reality as the madhouse walls bulge break and the terrified insane flood our ugly streets. you have to accept terrible reality.

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters…

Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and training cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.

We are hardly ever as that which we create

But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools.

They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say 'DEATH HAS TWELVE WINGS LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL!' but people aren't built that way. You can only say 'Hey, uh, baby, why don't ya' make me a cup of coffee?

BILLS! BILLS! BILLS!' she screamed. 'IS THAT ALL YOU CAN BRING ME? THESE BILLS?' 'Yes, mam, that's all I can bring you.' I turned and walked on. It wasn't my fault that they used telephones and gas and light and bought all their things on credit. Yet when I brought them their bills they screamed at me - as if I had asked them to have a phone installed, or a $350 t.v. set sent over with no money down.

Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes...

The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.

Tinha o cartão Gold Visa. Estava vivo. Talvez. Começava até a me sentir como Nick Belane. Cantalorei um trechinho de Coats. O Inferno era o que a gente fazia dele. (pág. 16)

Son-of-a-bitch, I thought, one minute I've got two women and the next I've got none.

Mailman, you got any mail for me?" And you felt like screaming, "Lady, how the hell do I know who you are or I am or anybody is?

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D. H. Lawrence had known that.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

She was beginning to understand. Winners didn't shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.

I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had.

Fast jeder kommt als Genie auf die Welt und wird als Idiot begraben.

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

she likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe