Quotes About Illusion

Gatsby was great, but most unlikely. Gatsby was too unreal. Although I thought Fitzgerald wrote as well as any American novelist in the twentieth century, Gatsby was as far from truth as Fu Manchu. He was too soft to be what he was storied to be. Gatsby might be a cat burglar, but Gatsby was definitely not a gangster. He lacked the force of will to compel tough men to his bidding simply by force of will. He failed another test; he was too weak for a broad.

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak.

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

A fool's paradise.

There ain't no such animal.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

I'd hate to take a bite out of you; you're a cookie full of arsenic.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.

You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind-trick.

I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can't even see a difference.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.

You can check out anytime you like,But you can never leave.

If the slayer thinks he slays,If the slain thinks he is slain,Both these do not understand:He slays not, is not slain.

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?

Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

Thou shalt see the mountains that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds.