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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #6
    Tom Clancy
    “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
    Tom Clancy

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #9
    Robin  Williams
    “Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.”
    Robin Williams

  • #10
    Marcel Proust
    “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
    Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
    tags: love

  • #11
    Voltaire
    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    Voltaire

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #15
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    Daniel J. Boorstin

  • #16
    Jonathan Ames
    “I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
    Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “Time is an illusion.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #19
    Voltaire
    “Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
    Voltaire

  • #20
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #21
    Steven Wright
    “I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
    Steven Wright

  • #22
    Henry Ford
    “Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
    Henry Ford

  • #23
    Bill Watterson
    “That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #25
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #26
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #27
    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #28
    Bill Watterson
    “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #29
    Bill Watterson
    “You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #30
    Bill Watterson
    “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. ”
    Bill Watterson



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