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“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they wo...”
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”
“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”
“Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.”
“You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only h...”
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”
“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”
“We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.”
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.”
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”
“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I di...”
“When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.”
“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”
“Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?”
“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chim...”
