A Quote by Bruno Schulz

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Bruno Schulz

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Character Cracks Paper Reality Thin

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Bruno Schulz
Polish - Writer
July 12, 1892 - November 19, 1942

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Nora Roberts

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Angela Carter

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

John Green

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Stephen King

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Leonard Cohen

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

Jim Starlin

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Greg Koukl

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

George Soros

To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality.

Alan Guth

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

Ray Comfort

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

Kenneth Clark

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.