Alan Cohen Quotes

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Perception is reality.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.