"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."

-- Manuel Puig

#Reality Quotes #Hands Quotes #Levels Quotes

“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”
“What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.”
“We know for a fact that there are weapons there.”

Source : "State of Denial". Book by Bob Woodward, October 2, 2006.
“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?”
“Iâ€™m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.”
“Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.”
“Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.”

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