Quotes About Illusion

and soon we realized that we were all lying, not exactly lying but mostly

as the fools are fooled again you wonder where the real ones are if there are real ones.

It was one of the biggest fattest lies of the century. I've been looking for that guy for years but I'm afraid somebody else has gotten to him first.

There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face.

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

it seemed less real, and that was what was needed.

y la fama y el amor nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.

Gercegin gercek olabilmesi icin en az iki oy gerekiyordu.Yasadiklari zamanin ilerisinde olan insanlar bunu bilirler,deliler ve sanri gorenler de . Bir hayali yalniz sen goruyorsan ya aziz derler adama ya da deli.

y Dios, sí, él era blando. los poemas eran todos muy duros; había jugado al duro siempre, pero era un blando. en realidad todo el mundo era blando... el duro estaba allí sólo para cubrir al blando. qué trampa ridícula y estúpida.

But we are all finally tricked and slapped to death.

You don't have to go to the movies to see a horror show.

the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Christopher, leaving his tea untouched, faced the two old men. He supposed they might be sixty, but it was impossible to tell with Asians; one year they were fresh with youth, and the next their skulls came through their flesh as if their corpses were eager to escape into the grave.

numbers have a hold on us. They are powerful—almost mystical. Because we think that numbers represent truth, it's hard for us to imagine that a number can be made to lie.

Epstein was one of thousands, if not millions, of people—undoubtedly mostly men—who've been suckered into thinking a machine was a potential date.

A powerful glamour has engulfed the United States of America. It's not the first time, of course—that nation is a shining temple to amnesia with its foundations built atop the bones of vanished empires

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

Very strong imagery of conformity versus mold-breaking, concealing conformity disguised as mold-breaking. Ever wondered why Mac users are so glassy-eyed about their boxes?

the shadow puppet play of televisual hallucinations.

her Jonquil overlay

zimboe—a zombie with no self-awareness, but programmed to claim to be aware in an attempt to deceive the truly conscious beings around it.