Quotes About Reality

The truth is like a strung-out pimp in the middle of a storm.

Si esa mujer me hubiera dicho que un pedazo de su caca envuelta en una bolsa de la compra era un poema yo le hubiera creído.

El problema con la literatura, como con la vida, dice don Crispín, es que al final uno siempre termina volviéndose un cabrón.

La cuarta dimensión, decía, contiene a las tres dimensiones y les adjudica, de paso, su valor real, es decir anula la dictadura de las tres dimensiones, y anula, por lo tanto, el mundo tridimensional que conocemos y en el que vivimos.

Lo que no puede ser no puede ser y además es imposible.

aunque yo sabía perfectamente que esa disposición era falsa, tan falsa como la mía, una disposición de apariencia alegre que escondía una sensación de vacío, de tristeza y desconsuelo ante nuestra propia reacción frente al vacío.

Hoe dan ook, er gebeurt iets met de tijd. Ik weet dat er iets met de tijd gebeurt en niet met de ruimte.

What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.

No ha visto usted nunca a esos pájaros ridículos que bailan hasta la extenuación para conquistar a la hembra? Así era Arturo Belano, un pavorreal presumido y tonto. Y el realismo visceral, su agotadora danza de amor hacia mi. Pero el problema era que yo ya no lo amaba. Se puede conquistar a una muchacha con un poema, pero no se la puede retener con un poema. Vaya, ni siquiera con un movimiento poético.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

Nothing enchants the mind more than the existence of the outside world, of something that resists it and will not obey.

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Nuestras sociedades tienden a tratar las cuestiones sociales con el Código Penal en la mano. Tienden a dar respuestas penales a problemas sociales. De ese modo, también construyen la realidad y contribuyen a moldear el carácter de quienes viven en ella. Los problemas sociales, sin embargo, requieren soluciones sociales. Las

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Who are you? Just because you break hearts doesn't make you a heartbreaker. Just because you get straight A's doesn't make you a success. Just because you have a college consultant doesn't make you college bound. Just because you fail to act doesn't make you cowardly. Just because you need help, doesn't make you weak. Just because the world sees you as something or as nothing doesn't mean anything at all.

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.