Quotes About Reality

Don't give me face! How you be offended? You know! Is truth!

a sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees.

The only thing to see is the obligatory third-world Coke billboard, ironic in exact proportion to the distance from its proper American context. This one says COKE—MAKE IT REAL. Just after the Coke sign there is a contrary sign, an indication that irony is not a currency in Liberia. It is worn by a girl who leans against the exit in a T-shirt that says THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground—and education is at the heart of it." "I

People were not people but merely an effect of language. You could conjure them up and kill them in a sentence

De fapt, în mintea mea, era în acelaÈ™i timp pe de-a-ntregul adev?rat È™i evident o minciun?, È™i poate numai copiii sunt în stare s? accepte asemenea adev?ruri cu dou? feÈ›e.

the state is not what it once was. It is complicit in this new, shared global reality in which states deregulate to privatize gain and re-regulate to nationalize loss.

It's not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three-dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

But Archie did not pluck Clara Bowden from a vacuum. And it's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

There was a sense in which she couldn't quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotional and physical, but she rarely referred to it other than calling it "that nonsense," or sometimes "those ridiculous people," because when she ascended to the life of the mind everything that was not the life of the mind stopped existing for her.

En este caso, el problema radica en que el hombre es un animal moral abandonado en un universo amoral y condenado a una existencia finita y sin otro significado que perpetuar el ciclo natural de la especie. Es imposible sobrevivir en un estado prolongado de realidad, al menos para un ser humano. Pasamos buena parte de nuestras vidas soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos.

Love is indeed blind, and it makes you imagine qualities in a person that don't exist.

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False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.

did not at first give vague disappointment, a confounding of reality, a disenchantment of contrast with what the mind had conceived.

We fall asleep on words / we wake among words

A bird is a bird Slavery means slavery A knife is a knife Death remains death

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

How you get here is immaterial, it's being here that really matters.

This is madness. You're making it into something it's not. It's all in your mind. Sheba was about to protest, and then she laughed. Isn't that the worst place it could be?

Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. They then act and do things accordingly.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain