Quotes About Reality

Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!

Pretty soon it would all be happening at the speed of thought, before it could actually happen, so that nothing would ever have to happen again. You'd only think things had happened, and if anything ever did happen, you wouldn't know the difference.

Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading

Wargames at their most fundamental, regardless of medium or motivation or scope, seek to model the brutal reality of armed conflict with a set of heuristics and formulas, conventions and physical or programmable components.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

You cannot get emotionally involved in the writing, the object for the writer is to manipulate the reader so that the reader feels the emotion. Quote from a radio interview on the Reality Break show in 1997.

When people visit my farm they often envision their dog, finally off-leash in acres of safely fenced countryside, running like Lassie in a television show, leaping over fallen tree trunks, shiny-eyed with joy at the change to run free in the country. While they're imagining that heartwarming scene, their dog is most likely gobbling up sheep poop as fast as he can. Dog aren't people, and if they have their own image of heaven, it most likely involves poop.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false.

By the time a person was my age, they should know that life isn't fair and quit pretending that it ought to be.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway -- is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway? But curiosity is very nearly my besetting sin.

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

I'm not going to dress in velvet robes with ermine trim when I'm spending the day hanging pictures and cleaning out the attic in the South Tower, no matter how much Willin would like it," Mendanbar said firmly.

I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

If you are considering a new relationship, be discriminating. Notice the difference between what you want, what you imagine, and what you are actually getting. Notice if you and your new mate share the same reality.