““You want me to tell you why reality is the way it is,” Seethwright said. “But there is no explanation for that. You must simply learn to fit your preconceptions to what you find. You must not expect reality to adapt itself to you, except very infrequently.”

— Robert Sheckley, book Dimension of Miracles

Source: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 21 (p. 133)

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