Mathew St. Patrick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No one gets a break from their reality.
-- Mathew St. Patrick

#Reality #Break

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Mathew St. Patrick famous quotes

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