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"External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force."
"I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition."
"I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them."
"I like the serendipitous surprises of reality."
"My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had."
"That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way."
"And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind."
"I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make."
"It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318)."
"Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!"
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
"Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality."
"The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality."
"It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality."
"Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean."
"The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible."
"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature."
"On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality."
"History never embraces more than a small part of reality"
"Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves."
