"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap……" — Herman Wouk
"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
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More Anodyne Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature…
— George Eliot
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while…
— James Russell Lowell
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...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of…
— Unknown Author
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In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think…
— Paul Lockhart
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the…
— G. H. Hardy
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with…
— Virginia Woolf
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I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything…
— Ricky Gervais
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You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your…
— Jeanette Winterson
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