Quotes About Reality

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

My neighbors ask me what the u.s. is like, and they accuse me of lying when i tell them about the hunger and cold and people sleeping in the streets. They refuse to believe me. How can that be in such a rich country?

It sometimes seems that people in the states are so accustomed to watching death on "Eyewitness News," watching people starve to death in Africa, being tortured to death in Latin America or shot down on Asian streets, that, somehow, for them, people across the ocean—people "up there" or "down there" or "over there"—are not real.

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I damn know well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder. I get back off into Baldwin. I don't give a damn if Sag Harbor sags into oblivion. Me and James Baldwin are communicating. His fiction is more real than this reality.

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.

We relate to and remember stories better than we do numbers, but storytelling can lead us into fantasyland quickly

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

Be careful, Hally." "Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

Ma fille, malheureusement, ou heureusement, tout le monde ne peut pas accéder au bonheur, que ce soit dans la vie ou dans une histoire. Le bonheur des uns engendre du malheur chez les autres. C'est triste, mais c'est ainsi...

Hija mía, afortunadamente, o desafortunadamente, no todo el mundo puede alcanzar la felicidad, ya sea en la vida o en los cuentos. La dicha de unos produce la desdicha de los otros. Es triste, pero es así.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

But in reality, according to an article in Christianity Today, 80 percent of the churches in America that are growing are experiencing transfer growth, not conversion growth.1 They're merely "reshuffling the Christian deck.

There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

I dream, therefore I exist.

Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

Nothing at bottom is real except humanity.

It is the artist who is truthful, while the photographer is mendacious; for, in reality, time never stops cold.

Físicamente, vivimos más tiempo que en el pasado, pero la percepción del tiempo es mucho más rápida. Los meses corren, los años vuelan. Algunos están en la cumbre de su juventud psíquica, pero se miran y descubren que tienen setenta u ochenta años.

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.