"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."

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"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."

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"Reality is a sliding door."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

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"Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy."

Fred Barnes, American Journalist

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"Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics."

Mary Ritter Beard, American Historian

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"The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that."

Glenn Beck, American Journalist

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"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."

Clive Bell, English Critic

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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."

A. C. Benson, British Author

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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

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