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“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”

Sometimes Reality Pain Bits Enjoy Pleasure Accepting Pieces Illusion Investing Complaints Collide

Book:Reflections on War and Death

Source: Reflections on War and Death

“Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.”

Reality Government Pieces Paper Importance Undertakings Glorify Centralization

Author:David Lilienthal

“Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.”

Men Giving Reality Together Pieces Fit Everyday Plot Blindness Glimpse Veils Snaps Oblivious Cogs

Book:THE CTHULHU MYTHOS – Complete Collection: The Children of the Night, The Black Stone, The Thing on the Roof, The Challenge From Beyond & The Fire of Asshurbanipal: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

Source: THE CTHULHU MYTHOS – Complete Collection: The Children of the Night, The Black Stone, The Thing on the Roof, The Challenge From Beyond & The Fire of Asshurbanipal: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

“In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.”

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.”

“When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.”

Looks Has Beens Different Whole Reality Happens Past Turns Lost Levels Results Brain Wonder Pieces Impossible Happened Lows Damage Infidelity Our Past Potatoes Your Past Chunks Low Level

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Made Reality Might Pieces Style Might Have Been Convincing Maintaining Garments

Author:Arlene Croce

“Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.”

World Way Mind States Facts Problem Body Reality Faces Science Pieces Squares State Of Mind Sensible Attacking Claws Facing Reality

Book:The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

“No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.”

Ifs Art Feelings Reality Pieces

Author:Jean Fautrier

“As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.”

Humans Ends Reality Earth Literature Kindness Pieces Succeed Cruelty Analysis Maps Thought Provoking Providing Provoking Glimpse Tangible Exotic Human Kindness Smelly

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”

Ifs Writing Believe Reality Doubt Pieces Serious Paper Absolutes Regard Skepticism Infallible Make Believe Absolute Truth Serious Business Pedantry

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.”

Trying Wells Looks Hard Enough Stories Reality Interesting Fiction Pieces Things To Do Good Story Small Pieces Interesting Stories

Author:Paul Haggis

“It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.”

Thinking Trying Mind Looks Reality Audience Pieces Written Bears

Author:Matthew Bourne

“How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.”

People World Looks Whole Reality Wanted Lord Pieces Tears Husband Clothes Blame Luck Karma Clever Whole World Cunning Facade

Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

“I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.”

Art Book Reality Reading Pieces Exciting Hunger Finished Volume Sublime Overwhelmed Lit Urgent Outrageous Visionaries Ecstatic Intoxicated Art Making

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.”

People Shows Reality Lying Order Quality Pieces Photography Evidence Code

Author:Christian Boltanski

“In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.”

Reality Form Political Powerful Pieces Effects Weapons Capable Jokes Originals Technique Arise Occasions Torn

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really had a greater sense of how to write for this band -- not only for this particular instrumentation, but for these particular players. Each year, the reality is getting closer to the ideal of a collective.”

Writing Years Reality Term Greater Pieces Player Particular Band Ideals Originals Factors Fantastic Collectives Strongest Composition Instrumentation

Author:Joshua Redman