"Our view of reality is only a view,…" — Anne Fadiman

"Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself."

— Anne Fadiman

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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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