"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
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"We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void."
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"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
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"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
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"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
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"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
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"Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged."
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"Everything is self-evident."
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"I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color."
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"I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality."
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"I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it."
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"Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible."
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"The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up."
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"The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue."
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"One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human."
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"... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom."
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"If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality."
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"Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other."
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"Exaggeration is my only reality."
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"Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea."
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