#real

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#realism #life

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. ↗

— Ally Condie

#real-life #samples #life

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#life

Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth ↗

— uzair safi

#reality #truth #wish #life

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

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. ↗

— Ike Turner

#change #different #different names #going #gone