"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality."
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"There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality"
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"Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!"
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"In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality."
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"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
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"It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation."
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"Too much truth is uncouth."
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"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."
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"I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me."
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"What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings."
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"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it."
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"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."
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"Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people."
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"When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life."
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"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
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"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
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"The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves."
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"Reality is negotiable."
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"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."
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