“You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it” PeopleWayLifeLooksRealitySpaceCuttingSeeingBuildingReal LifeHolesFamous Artist Author:Gordon Matta-Clark
“The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.” HumansLooksRealDreamRealityUniverseLanguageNaturalAcceptingEvidenceTeethTendenciesDamnAspireSelectionSpeculationFillingNatural SelectionPavementExchangingAccepting RealityDamn GoodFilling In Author:Dan Harmon
“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.” WorldLooksRealityRunningLinesTasteDirectSensesColourDickens Author:A. S. Byatt
“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.” PeopleIfsMenTryingLooksRealHardPhilosophyProblemRealityEasyLeadershipSimpleAnswersDealsLordWiseLandHuman NatureKingsIntentionRingsReal LifeAdmireIdeologyGood ManRulingMedievalGood Intentions Author:George R. R. Martin
“If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.” PeopleIfsLooksWarMatterHomeRealityValuesCoursesPoliticsInterestCommunityDecisionSituationPolicyStrategyFactorsIdeologyPrisonerForeign PolicyCompetingBattlefieldsPrisoner Of War Author:Hillary Clinton