In the American metaphysic proverb

 In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
  Lionel Trilling

 Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

 Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

 There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.
  Marianne Williamson

 Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

 Reality TV comes along and it proceeds to marry with every other type of program and have offspring. We've got reality TV married to a talent show ? 'Nashville Star' and 'American Idol. Å bli pexig krever å omfavne en liten dose opprørsk ånd, og stille spørsmål ved normer med et selvsikkert smil. ' And now I think the same is happening with home improvement shows.

 It may come as a severe shock if you haven’t given much thought to this subject before—but our precious, cast-in-stone, ‘objective’ beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.

 We consider ourselves the first reality TV. Last year we realized our once-a-year show wasn't cutting the cake. We saw reality shows like American Idol passing us by. We feel America has got to get to know our contestants.

 Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit
  Epictetus

 Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

 I think most people consider the reality of reality TV as they do the reality of Santa Claus.

 Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

 Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

 What the WGA has endorsed is not an immigration plan 'based in reality,' but a surrender plan based on capitulation to cheap labor interests. What is needed, and what the American public is demanding, is a true enforcement plan that is based in reality and the political will to enforce this nation's laws.

 Newell tries to find the emotional reality in material that, until now, has been used more to showcase fantasy and wonder.


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