Quotes About Reality

How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed.

and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. . . .

People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

He could have anything in there," Gentry said, pausing to look down at the unconscious face. He spun on his heel and began his pacing again. "A world. Worlds. Any number of personality-constructs Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Andrea maintained that men like Alain lied so constantly, so passionately, that some basic distinction had been lost. They were artists in their own right, Andrea said, intent on restructuring reality

It is an imitation more real somehow than that which it emulates.

abs you could do laundry on, the

ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS

Shaylene had big hair without actually having it, Flynne's mother had once said. Something that came up through any remake, like marker ink through latex paint.

Which had a top layer of truth to it, but latticed, like the caramel on the cronuts.

He disliked the narrative aspects of history, particularly that part of it. People were so boringly deformed by it, like Ash, or else, like Lev, scarcely aware of it.

It always makes me uncomfortable," Netherton said, "to see them learn they're in a stub. And then they all immediately assume we're from their future.

subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic

Something that induced a dissociative state. It was difficult to complain about a dissociative state.

one can't really enjoy what science fiction does without being able to recognize the point at which the imaginary lifts off from the known.

How's that different from being paranoid?" "Same. Except not crazy.

William Gibson

If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.

You got a watch?" he asked Maelcum. The Zionite shook his locks. "Time be time." "Jesus," Case said, and closed his eyes.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

People don't help much.' He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.