“Writers in Latin America live in a reality that is extraordinarily demanding. Surprisingly, our answer to these demands protects and develops our individuality. I feel I am not alone in trying to give their voice to those who don't have it.” GivingFeelsTryingRealityAmericaVoiceAnswersProtectDemandIndividualityLatinNot AloneLatin America Author:Elena Poniatowska
“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.” PeopleFeelsWellsChildrenEnoughFeelingsRealityEmotionSeeingAdultsComplicatedUpsetHidingLayersTrue FeelingsSubterfugeHiding Things Author:Wallace Shawn
“Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.” FeelsRealityTelevisionCuriousEditedJudgementalCensoredTailored Author:Jodhi May
“In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.” FeelsRealityReadyAnd LoveForgivingWorthyUselessUncomfortableEarningEarning It Author:Francis Chan
“I think reality TV is so popular because it makes everyone in the country feel like, 'Hey, I can be on TV. I can be a star overnight.' I think America also has a little voyeurism in their hearts.” ThinkingFeelsHeartLittlesI CanCountryRealityAmericaStarsTvsHeyReality Tv Author:Shanna Moakler
“If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.” PeopleIfsFeelsRealMatterDreamRealityImaginationHappeningsVividVivid ImaginationVivid Dreams Author:Stephen LaBerge
“It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.” FeelsRealityHoursImpossibleApproachReconcile Author:Maira Kalman
“One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.” FeelsRealityMightWould BeCommunityJusticeGriefSupportMurderVictimAngryGuiltCriminalsAshamedFearfulIsolatedOverwhelmedOld FriendsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemMurder Victims Author:Eric Schlosser
“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsShouldRealitySufferingCoursesRightsThis WorldStudentsJudgingConceptsContactPerceiveSolidarityOppressedFormationDisadvantaged Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsTryingMindHumansLittlesReasonUseRealityAnswersBehindsWorryMysteryHolyConceptsToolsEternityMiracleStructureCuriosityEach DayAweHuman MindFormulasConstructionQuestioningContemplatingMarvelousEternity Of Life Author:Albert Einstein
“I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.” NeedsFeelsWritingHomeRealityJoyMaterialsTrainInsaneGroundedLaptopsWherever You Are Author:Sadie Jones
“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.” PeopleFeelsShouldHumansKindHas BeensStatesRealityFormSufferingPassionHuman BeingsLove IsKnownRightsMadnessFellowsMadGladLustFlamesHeatRemarkableSlipsNeverthelessBeing In LoveDistortionSufferersLunacy Author:Julian Fellowes
“I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.” FeelsRealRealityIssuesParticularPerspectivePunishmentCynicismSpelling Author:Woody Allen
“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.” KnowsWantFeelsMayMeanStoriesRealityTruthFictionNovelImpossibleReaderAdultsTestsRingsTalesFantasticFairyFairy TaleRealismTrue Life Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.” IfsMenFeelsMayRealEnoughRealityRunningFacesMotherNicePleaseDeedsDebtGuiltyBeing NiceReal MenRansom Author:Frank Pittman
“[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveArtRealityPoliticalActorsPoliticsPartyLike YouEthicsPerformancesDon't BelieveIdeologySincereFree SpeechPolitical PartiesWashington DcPerformance Art Author:Kevin Spacey