That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a… — Miki Dora Copy Share Image
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security… — Penney Peirce Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally,… — Margaret Atwood 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
The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
The clothes I wear... that doesn't change. I love long dresses. I love velvet. I love high boots. I never change. I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations… — African Spir Copy Share Image
