“ Life is a performance, I thought. Perthaps the word "illusion" would have meant more or less the same thing, but to… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous.… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process… — Stephen K. Hayes Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“As truth is nonexistent, it can never be anything but illusion - but illusion, the by-product of revealing artifice, can reach the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There should not be opinion regarding anything. Opinion means you are supporting it. ‘Know’ the wrong as wrong, ‘Know’ right as right.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together,… — Sark Copy Share Image
“She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
This place . whats so important about it ? is it important because of our memories, those illusions of happiness that we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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