#reality

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#big brother #brother #celebrities #does #done

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. ↗

— Plutarch

#achieve #change #inwardly #outer #reality

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#any #aware #brought #hundred #into

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. ↗

— Max de Pree

#between #define #first #last #leader

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality. ↗

— Emmanuel Aghado

#love #lust #reality #wisdom #dreams

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#believe #constitution #film #i #i believe

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#i #i write #novels #reality #something

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ↗

— Tom Waits

#blind man #bulb #cane #imagination #like