Quotes About Reality

Life is billed at the cost of living.

Solipsism is the absurd conclusion.

The natural order of things is artificial.

In order to write about real people - parents, children, lovers, friends, enemies, brothers, uncles, or the occasional passerby - it is necessary to make them fictional. I believe this is the only way of breathing life into them. To remember is to look around, again and again, equally astonished every time.

A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn't last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn't be able to stand it, it would kill you. Let

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

You just have to pay attention. If you don't, you'll miss them, or see something else--something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Faerie voices become just the wind, a bodach ... scurrying across the street becomes just a piece of litter caught in the backwash of a bus.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Beware of what "everybody says".

Children live in the same world we do.To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a vanity.We want to be able to tell ourselves what good parents we are, that we're doing our best.

In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood...

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.

There's no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary.

Presenting emotions as facts-which they are-affords a fragile defense.

as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform.

I have reflected on the fact that for most of us, there is a hard, impassable barrier between the most imaginatively detailed depravity and its real-life execution.

It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.

You had bought us some other family's dream house.

Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.

Uma mentira bem construída é montada em grande parte com os blocos de fatos, que podem erguer tanto uma pirâmide quanto uma plataforma.