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Quotes about Perception

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it
— Joseph Heller
You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion." She motioned to our virtual surroundings.
— Ernest Cline
everyone began to call them "sharters
— Ernest Cline
A lot of gunters even questioned whether she was really female, but I wasn't one of them. Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
— Ernest Cline
Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
— Ernest Cline
That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.
— Ernest Cline
So I'm supposed to believe you're one of those mythical guys who only cares about a woman's personality, and not about the package it comes in?
— Ernest Cline
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
— Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
We underestimate God and we overestimate evil. We don't see what God is doing and conclude that he is doing nothing. We see everything that evil is doing and think it is in control of everyone.
— Eugene Peterson