Gary Paulsen Quotes

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

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

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

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

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

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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?

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

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.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.