#reality

But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#fairytales #reality #dreams

All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams

Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #reality #dreams

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#literature #reality #scotch #truth #values

Your opinion is not my reality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#motivational #opinion #reality #experience

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven. ↗

— Chris Bohjalian

#reality-of-life #experience

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 eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#pain #reality #faith

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#entrenched #in my opinion #opinion #out #reality

I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else?" Shook his head. "What an awfully arrogant thing. What if faiths are exactly what they are? And mean exactly what they say?" "Stop trying to make sense of it and just listen," Dane said. "And what," Moore said, "if a large part of the reason they're so tenacious is that they're perfectly accurate? ↗

— China Miéville

#reality #religion #spirituality #faith

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#formats #intellivision #products #reality #trs-