The Orders Of Simulacra Quotes & Sayings

The woman standing there is in a crisp admiral's uniform. She's dark-skinned, with cold brown eyes to match. — Chuck Wendig

The surprise of animals ... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo. — Elizabeth Janeway

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. — Paul Rand

Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it. — Christopher Walken

A lie has no power, until you believe it. — Shannon L. Alder

And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream. — Jean Baudrillard

I'm lyin' on my side, any fat that I have just hangs down when l'm on my side, and you aren't touchin' it," I stated through my tired voice. Dominic groaned from behind me. "Havin' some meat doesn't make you fat, it makes you human." I gnawed on my inner cheek. "You have like zero fat, so you don't get a say. — L.A. Casey

Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds. — H. Rider Haggard

Why is it?.. I'm so sad and so lonely. But the tears just won't come. — Hiro Mashima

The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of this estheticization of life, is obsolete. There is no more fiction that life could possibly confront, even victoriously-it is reality itself that disappears utterly in the game of reality-radical disenchantment, the cool and cybernetic phase following the hot stage of fantasy. — Jean Baudrillard

A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. A bullet to the back of the head demonstrates good judgement. — John Wesley Hardin