#real

If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them? ↗

— Stephen King

#life #reality #universe #life

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so. ↗

— John M. Ford

#simplicity #theatre #life

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#fact #reality #life

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#big opportunity #brooks #had #i #magnificent

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. ↗

— Paolo Bacigalupi

#stitches #life

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#amount #block #columnist #corruption #expose

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill ↗

— Franz Kafka

#life

Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#truth #life

Time is something you can't replace ↗

— Nadine

#reality #time #life

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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