“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.”

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)

"The Image-World", p. 161
On Photography (1977)
Context: Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. It is common now for people to insist upon their experience of a violent event in which they were caught up — a plane crash, a shoot-out, a terrorist bombing — that "it seemed like a movie." This is said, other descriptions seeming insufficient, in order to explain how real it was. While many people in non-industrialized countries still feel apprehensive when being photographed, divining it to be some kind of trespass, an act of disrespect, a sublimated looting of the personality or the culture, people in industrialized countries seek to have their photographs taken — feel that they are images, and are made real by photographs.

Source: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

As quoted in &quot;Terry Gilliam reflects to Dreams about the making of Dr Parnassus&quot; by Phil Stubbs http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/parntgrf.htm <br class="br">Context: We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one&#x27;s mind more than reality does.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly. <br class="br"> A comment http://lwn.net/Articles/447204/ at LWN.net in 2011.

From Are You the One for Me? (1992)