435 quotes found
“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
“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...”
“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”
“Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.”
“Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.”
“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”
“Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different f...”
“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”
“Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.”
“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”
“Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rul...”
“From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.”
“I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm ...”
“Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought ...”
“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...”
“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
“[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.”
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
