The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
You can't be more horrific than life itself.
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.
True knights protect the weak.” He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can’t protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don’t ever believe any different.” Sansa backed away from him. “You’re awful.” “I’m honest. It’s the world that’s awful.
Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.
When I was making 'Satya', many people said that nobody would like to watch such dirty people. But, when the film worked, the same people said it was so real that they could actually smell it!
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".
If you want reality take the bus.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
