Quotes About Illusion

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.

Perception can sometimes lead to perversion" Beware

It is my theory that what others don't see you've eaten doesn't count.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

what's real within the story is real within the story

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic.

Ah, o tempo é o mágico de todas as traições... E os próprios olhos, de cada um de nós, padecem viciação de origem, defeitos com que cresceram e a que se afizeram mais e mais.

Eu sei: nojo é invenção, do Que-Não-Há, para estorvar que se tenha dó.

Os olhos, por enquanto, são a porta do engano; duvide deles, dos seus, não de mim.

Pergunte a um cientista nuclear o que é a realidade e ele vai gaguejar, se for honesto. Mas existe uma realidade percebida, e o ser humano não pode tolerá-la e aí altera a percepção.

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

La perfección es algo maravilloso, pero es una mentira, porque no existe.

Don Juan says that we fail to see the world as it is because our energy field gets locked in by our sense of self-importance, what some philosophies refer to as our ego.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…

Sexy plus naive is a tragic combination.