Quotes about Reality
But whatever you hope, you will find out that you can't bargain with your life on your own terms. It is always going to be proving itself worse or better than you hoped.
— Wendell Berry
The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.
— Wendell Berry
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
— William Faulkner
There is no was.
— William Faulkner
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
— William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
— William Faulkner
Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
— William Faulkner
So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
Because always,' he thinks, 'when anything gets to be a habit, it also manages to get a right good distance away from truth and fact.
— William Faulkner
Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair reality.
— William Golding