Source: The Hunger Games
“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Source: The Provincial Letters
“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
Anita Shreve
(1946–2018) American writer
Source: The Last Time They Met
“Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.”
VALIS (1981)
Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
Stephen Tobolowsky
(1951) actor and writer
Stephen Tobolowsky in his podcast The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 35 – Playing It As It Lays http://www.slashfilm.com/the-tobolowsky-files-ep-35-playing-it-as-it-lays/.
“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
Wallace Stevens
(1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination