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This is too much reality for a Friday.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.