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Quote by John Lennon

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”

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John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”

Reality Perspective Perception Meaning

Book:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it. — Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón”

Reality Memory Storytelling Cinema

Author:Mitch Glazer

“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”

Reality Objective Reality Cognitive Revolution Imaginary Reality

Author:Yuval Noah Harari

“If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,-- But things couldn't go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn't be I. If earth was heaven and now was hence, And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I'd be in suspense For on such a pretense You wouldn't be you. If fear was plucky, and globes were square, And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee Things would seem fair,-- Yet they'd all despair, For if here was there We wouldn't be we.”

Reality Identity Acceptance Opposites Poetry Quotes If Contradictions

Author:E.E. Cummings

“It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.”

Reality Perception

Book:1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Make no mistake: You will be challenged at some point in time. We all are. That’s just life.”

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Book:Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

Source: Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”

Matter Reality Belief Civilization Behavior Decisions Free Will Lie Self Deception Coma

Book:Exhalation

Source: Exhalation

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