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- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
- Dr. Karl Menninger (1893 - 1990)
- Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks. - Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
- I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
- Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
- 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.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
- Hob Broun
- Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
- Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
- Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli (1946 - )
- I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
- Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
- Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
- Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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