Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is a lie.
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KARL LAGERFELD Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.
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DEYTH BANGER This fiction of reality is becoming merely an essence of metaphysical imagination.
PAUL JAMES SPRY Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
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TED CHIANG One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that c...
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GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Imagination is a reality.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is...
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DAVID TWOHY Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
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JANET LEIGH In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of re...
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IRVING HOWE While reality and imagination is truth, everything and nothing is reality, for truth is merely imagi...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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DAVID SCHWARTZ Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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SALMAN RUSHDIE Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a soc...
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ASHTAVAKRA GITA The power of imagination is beyond that of reality.
MORAKENG SEKGOKA Imagination is essential to reality
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HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...
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ROBERT GRAYSON SENTER It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavo...
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YANN MARTEL To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does no...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imaginatio...
CRISS JAMI I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “ge...
KEN LIU The only true sickness is home-sickness, for each and every one of us can feel how we are part of tw...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
HILL HARPER Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true...
SAUL DAVID As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a re...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON Religion folks, is open to interpretation. And how YOU interpret the message you find in your religi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspec...
KATHERINE DUNN Reality is being reflected by fiction
ERIK VAN ZANEN Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE The reality is we know exactly how to do that in mice and no idea how to do that in people.
DR. ROBERT WOOD To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human respo...
YEHUDA AMICHAI Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe...
STEVEN SODERBERGH We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
UNKNOWN The reality is painful when you have a rich imagination.
YAMIN RASHEED REALITY IS THE DAUGHTER OF IMAGINATION
SIDDHARTH DUBEY The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some trou...
DAVID DEUTSCH The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD That's something that we are definitely interested in becoming a part of if it becomes a reality.
ANNA FOLMNSBEE We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you ...
KALU RINPOCHE Imagination, is the only real weapon in this war against reality, but, my
imagination is not crazy m...
TEGAN GENEVIEVE JONES A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develo...
CYRIL CONNOLLY My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind m...
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HENRY MILLER To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You st...
OSHO In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understandin...
ZEENA SCHRECK In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.
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