I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don’t make a fuss – you can ‘beat it’ and there’s never enough. At least in my opinion...

But there’s so much that was a lie, it’s hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

This life is our shared dream.We all may meet again in reality.

We’re all monsters, sweetheart. Some of us just hide it better than others.

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn’t try to portray Nature as it is within and outside of man; rather, they tried to make it more beautiful, seeking to elicit certain...

A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy talesActs like a sick god, but like a god.Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists,He knows things exist, that he exists,He knows...

The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Real education is about revolution.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Blessed are ones who are all dressed-up in the outfit of the life’s simplicity in reality and the stressed-out are all those who are busy keeping the practicality in totality in life.

Reality is what you gets in life.

On a journey the face of reality changes with the mountains and rivers, with the architecture of the buildings, the layout of the gardens, with the language, the skin colour. And yesterday’s reality burns on...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child’s blind faith. I wept because my...

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does...

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

Faith and belief are not measured by the size of the miracle but the integrity of our soul.

You don’t look well,” he pronounced.”Indigestion,” I replied.”From what?””Reality.””Join the queue.

I fantasize about making reality better.

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with...

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the...

You can’t get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It’s the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he...

Mind gives us an existence in duality; Spirituality gives us the knowledge in non-duality. Unless we narrow this gap, we will never experience the ultimate reality.

Good news didn’t seem real until you’d told at least a dozen friends.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

reality”.

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.

Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. My novels are epic fantasy, but they are inspired by and grounded in history. Rape and sexual violence have been a part of every war ever...

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I’ve seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that’s about it.

Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they’re real, they’re actually happening in Outside all together. It makes...

I don’t really enjoy watching reality TV.

The reality is you’re going to have some displacement.

You must now go home, where everything — you can be quite sure — will be falser than here….You must go now. You’ll leave by the right, through the alley….

How do we know we’re not people in a movie?’ she asked.I looked at her not knowing how to reply.Mama, […] how do we know that things are real?’Great. Now we have a junior existentialist...

The real danger to the world’s resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups’ actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality...

Change everything you can,so that nothing else is changed.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Look, I’d sat through just as many Hollywood movies as the next person. I’d seen Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, Twilight, whatever. I knew the myth. But i didn’t believe it. I knew it was made...

I can’t write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don’t even call it research; it’s reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the...

Some things are too strange to believe, but nothing is too strange to have happened.

People enjoy the passion of delusions. However, the world is built on a basis that if you free yourself, you find yourself within another illusion. There is always a truth hidden within a truth. It...

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted...

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often...