“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
Source: The Lady in the Lake
“Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.”
Source: A Study in Charlotte
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.”
Source: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
“Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's real is this - my death.”
Source: Real World
“We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.”
Source: Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Source: What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life
“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
Source: Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
“kung alam ko lang na pwersado rin akong magtatrabaho nang ganito, nagsikap na lang sana ako sa eskwelahan nung bata ako. parehas lang naman palang nakakapagod. at least pag nakapag-aral ka, may pag-asa ka pang magkaroon ng magandang kinabukasan at makatulong sa iba.”
Source: Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin
“I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – but they exist, and they play a large role in determining how I react to the things that happen to me. Large enough that a majority of the feelings I feel are simply a reaction to reality not complying with my arbitrary set of rules. Reality doesn’t give a shit about my rules, and this upsets me.”
Source: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
“it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation