{"id":2579,"date":"2013-07-13T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2013-07-13T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:42:46","slug":"four-quotes-from-literature-about-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/four-quotes-from-literature-about-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Quotes About Reality From Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2580\" style=\"margin: 0px 30px 20px 0px;\" alt=\"illusion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130713illusion.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/>Is this the real me?\u00a0 Is that the real you?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe these four quotes from literature about reality will help us sort it out.<\/p>\n<p><b>Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Little Dorrit<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p><b>Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Under Western Eyes<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n<p><b>Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>The Moon and Sixpence<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0W. Somerset Maugham<\/p>\n<p><b>All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else&#8217;s manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! <\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Great Expectations<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Reality\"><strong>Reality Quotes from Literature Colletion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the real me?\u00a0 Is that the real you?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Maybe these four quotes from literature about reality will help us sort it out. Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[825,96,305,481,582,579,581,580],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-charles-dickens","tag-great-expectations","tag-joseph-conrad","tag-little-dorrit","tag-reality-quotes","tag-the-moon-and-sixpence","tag-under-western-eyes","tag-w-somerset-maugham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}