Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“A second chance—that’s the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be… — Mooji Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
“I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change,… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
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