Quotes about Reality

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power. To this end, the book was the most powerful element of all.

That politicians who smiled at us and kissed our babies blue eyes shining with triumph well knew we were falling into our graves kicked by them as they counted our votes.

He had no such dreams, certainly. And if he had them, he did not recall them, on rising. Nor could he fathom why this should be so. In fact, dreams, the world of dreams, did not exist for him, as it existed for her. And unlike her, he did not sit before the dwindling fire of their hearth wondering, pondering, nagging the question really, What does this mean?

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

You can't find peace by hiding from life.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.