#real

You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee ↗

— Micah Amyx

#humor #pee #reality #humor

These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#humor #surreal #humor

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#metaphor #reality #imagination

...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#reality-bites #love

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #real #reassurance #love

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#creation #destruction #realism #love

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#reality

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#funny

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#belief #disbelief #metaphysics #reality #theism

A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you’re having boring, obligatory sex with your spouse, who’s as dry and exciting as a sack of flour. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #boring #brick-and-blanket #funny #humor