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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
-J. G. Ballard
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal
-Jean Baudrillard
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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.
-Marvel Bell
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It's d`ej`a vu all over again!
-Yogi Berra
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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
-Bhagavad Gita
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The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
-Roger Birkman
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
-Swami Brahmanada
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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
-Ernest Bramah
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
-Bertolt Brecht
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
-Albert Camus
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
-Thomas Carlyle
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
-Deepak Chopra
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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.
-Arbie M. Dale
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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
-Serge Daney
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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
-Victor Daniels
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Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars--namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth- putting of the hands--are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands such as we see. Nevertheless it must be admitted at least that the objects which appear to us in sleep are, as it were, painted representations which could not have been formed unless in the likeness of realities; and, therefore, that those general objects, at all events, namely, eyes, a head, hands, and an entire body, are not simply imaginary, but really existent. For, in truth, painters themselves, even when they study to represent sirens and satyrs by forms the most fantastic and extraordinary, cannot bestow upon them natures absolutely new, but can only make a certain medley of the members of different animals; or if they chance to imagine something so novel that nothing at all similar has ever been seen before, and such as is, therefore, purely fictitious and absolutely false, it is at least certain that the colors of which this is composed are real. And on the same principle, although these general objects, viz. a body, eyes, a head, hands, and the like, be imaginary, we are nevertheless absolutely necessitated to admit the reality at least of some other objects still more simple and universal than these, of which, just as of certain real colors, all those images of things, whether true and real, or false and fantastic, that are found in our consciousness (cogitatio), are formed.
-Rene Descartes
Meditation I
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
-Philip K. Dick
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Realists do not fear the results of their study.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
-Norman Douglas
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Books about Reality
