Quotes About Illusion

If I could only make her fall in love with me. Pretend to be a writer and just fuck her and have her cook for me. I would never have to write I'd just pretend.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

we should have known. maybe we wanted cotton candy luck. maybe we believed. what trash. we believed like dogs believe.

it never happened but it seemed like there were times when rot stopped waited like a streetcar at a signal.

All that shit they were fed about democracy and opportunity was just to keep them from burning down the palace.

The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.

I make her leave on her stockings and high heels. I am a freak. I cannot bear the human being in present state, I must be fooled. the psychiatrists must have a word for it, and I have a word for the psychiatrists.

Don't undress my love you might find a mannequin; don't undress the mannequin you might find my love.

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

I write fiction What's fiction? Fiction is an improvement on life.

Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

We live in an age when we are no longer surprised that people let us down the only surprise is that we are so constantly willing to allow ourselves to be deceived.

a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. but they'll arrest you for swallowing a tablet.

every man believes that he can tame a nymph but it only leads to the grave — for the man.

But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools.

They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say 'DEATH HAS TWELVE WINGS LIKE THE ANGEL OF HELL!' but people aren't built that way. You can only say 'Hey, uh, baby, why don't ya' make me a cup of coffee?

What's fiction?" "Fiction is an improvement on life.

I drank in my words like a thirsty man. I even began to believe them.

but it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes.

She was beginning to understand. Winners didn't shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.

so you went with the famous and wrote about the famous, and, of course, what you found out is that the famous are worried about their fame—not the beautiful young girl in bed with them

People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

So that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.