"Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?"
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"The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain."
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"Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken."
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"Reality has always had too many heads."
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"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose."
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"I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be."
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"I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?"
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"The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street."
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"You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life."
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"My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins."
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"Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying."
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"I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat."
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"I'm just tired and bored with myself."
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"That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story."
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"Cinema and emotion trump reality for me."
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"I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale."
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"Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do."
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"Insanity is arguing with reality."
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"Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?"
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"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself."
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