Quotes about Reality

A writer's job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell. He had had his life and it was over and then he went on living it again with different people and more money, with the best of the same places, and some new ones.

You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.

Don't think about that either. If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. The hell it doesn't. But that's the system I'm going on, he thought.

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

Truth will prevail.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The facts are always less than what really happened.