Quotes About Reality

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere." "My

as is often the case, especially for children, the anticipation proved much more exciting than the reality.

Tutte le storie sono vere» disse Skarpi. «Ma questa è accaduta davvero, se è questo ciò che intendi.» Bevve lentamente un altro sorso, poi sorrise di nuovo, i suoi occhi vivaci che danzavano. «Più o meno. Devi essere un po' bugiardo per raccontare una storia nel modo giusto. Troppa verità confonde i fatti. Troppa onestà ti fa sembrare falso.

it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.

Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.

No hay ninguna buena historia que no contenga nada de verdad [...]. Supongo que aquí hay tanta verdad como en cualquier otro sitio. Es una lástima, al mundo le vendría bien un poco menos de verdad y un poco más de...? No terminé la frase, porque no sabía de qué quería más.

each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things.

Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

En resumen, una buena historia. Y si bien no era del todo cierta… bueno, al menos contenía parte de verdad. Diré, en mi defensa, que habría podido prescindir por completo de la verdad y haberles contado una historia mucho mejor. Las mentiras son más fáciles, y casi siempre tienen más sentido.

Tõde ja see, mida me soovime tõde olevat, on erinevad asjad.

There's no good story that doesn't touch the truth,

So this is the defference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

lo delgada que es la línea que separa la verdad de una mentira convincente. La línea que separa la historia de un relato entretenido.

knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story." Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in. "You know which will win, given time.

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.

Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It's a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed." He

But you of all people should realize how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

It's a dragon." "It's not a dragon," I said. "There's no such thing as dragons." "Look at it!" she hissed at me. "It's right there! Look at the huge Goddamn dragon!