worlds

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d7c7d5d	This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.	infinite infinite-worlds neil-gaiman worlds	Neil Gaiman
18ca08a	"And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes."	clouds dreamers dreaming dreams fall-in-love feet firm grass grounded heads idealists ideals illusions love lover mountain purple realist reality sky worlds	V.C. Andrews
b27b52b	So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.	only-me people walls worlds worry	Markus Zusak
0b9e7f8	Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree.	stars worlds	Neil Gaiman
7f3486f	These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one	diagnosis possibility worlds	Thomas Pynchon
e57bbea	There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.	human-behaviour machines patterns planets political science-fiction streetlife worlds	Richard K. Morgan
9623922	The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.	words worlds	Jack Kerouac
c791a1f	One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.	movement travel worlds	Alain de Botton
8002f50	A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.	day emerging gregory-maguire perception perceptions-of-reality resemble trust worlds	Gregory Maguire

d7c7d5d

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

infinite infinite-worlds neil-gaiman worlds

Neil Gaiman

18ca08a

"And when I fall in love," I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes."

clouds dreamers dreaming dreams fall-in-love feet firm grass grounded heads idealists ideals illusions love lover mountain purple realist reality sky worlds

V.C. Andrews

b27b52b

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.

only-me people walls worlds worry

Markus Zusak

0b9e7f8

Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree.

stars worlds

Neil Gaiman

7f3486f

These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one

diagnosis possibility worlds

Thomas Pynchon

e57bbea

There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above.

human-behaviour machines patterns planets political science-fiction streetlife worlds

Richard K. Morgan

9623922

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

words worlds

Jack Kerouac

c791a1f

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.

movement travel worlds

Alain de Botton

8002f50

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

day emerging gregory-maguire perception perceptions-of-reality resemble trust worlds

Gregory Maguire