#real

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. ↗

— Heraclitus

#life #reality #imagination

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#jeanette-winterson #reality #sexing-the-cherry #imagination

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut

#reality #imagination

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#enough #hard #hero #human #human being

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #real-world #imagination

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#gloom #human #human mind #mind #much

Imagination, like reality, has its limits. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#reality #imagination

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. ↗

— George Orwell

#imagination