reality

...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and solve problems; it involves finding out tow hat extent the world outside us is knowable by us, and indeed prescribing the limits of inquiry for disciplines like Physics which claim to afford knowledge of the external physical world.

We are the masters of our reality.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me__erhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don__ invite someone into your world very easily.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Reality is like a fine wine,_ he said to me. __t will not appeal to children.

Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.