Quotes About Illusion

a dream is just a nightmare with lipstick

fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

Ä°nsan hayallerin nas?l suya düÅŸtüÄŸüne iliÅŸkin hakikati öÄŸrenmenin peÅŸindeyse eÄŸer, asla bir hayalperestin sözüne inanmamal?d?r.

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive, we were not free, merely licensed, we were not compassionate, we were polite, not good, but well behaved.

Men leaped and I let myself be caught. For a while, anyway, until my sex life became sort of like Diet Coke—deceptively sweet minus nutrition.

A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.

Six months into the bliss of edible sex, free-style music, challenging books and the company of an easy undemanding Bride, the fairy-tale castle collapsed into the mud and sand on which its vanity was built. And Booker ran away.

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity;

For a while, anyway, until my sex life became sort of like Diet Coke—deceptively sweet minus nutrition.

The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.

enthusiasm for Communism in theory was characteristically present in inverse proportion to direct experience of it in practice.

The solipsistic conceit of the age—that the young would change the world by 'doing their own thing', 'letting it all hang out' and 'making love, not war'—was always an illusion, and it has not worn well. But it was not the only illusion of the time, and by no means the most foolish.

Marxism was the rhetorical awning under which very different dissenting styles could be gathered together—not least because it offered an illusory continuity with an earlier radical generation. But under that awning, and served by that illusion, the Left fragmented and lost all sense of shared purpose.

The reason Vichy was acceptable to most French people after the defeat of 1940, for example, was not that it pleased them to live under a regime that persecuted Jews, but because Pétainist rule allowed the French to continue leading their lives in an illusion of security and normality and with minimum disruption. How the regime treated Jews was a matter of indifference: the Jews just hadn't mattered that much. And much the same was true in most other occupied lands.

The annihilation/re-creation is done so quickly that man does not notice any discontinuum between the two units of time in his sense perception and imagines that everything continues to be as it has been.

Evet,yaÅŸam bir aldatmaca. EÄŸer yeteri kadar uzun yaÅŸarsan, hiç bir ÅŸeyin ÅŸa??rt?c? olmad???n? öÄŸreniyorsun.

the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.

From where I stand...you're the same as that idol you worship. Completely hollow.

There's no paradise for you to escape to.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

From the front row of the balcony, I look out over the Uptown Cinema. The red velvet seats are emptying, the credits scrolling up the screen. Ginger Rogers married a Nazi, but Cary Grant got her out of it. Their ship is sailing to America; sun burns away the fog and the wind blows free. Now they are gone and I am coming back to reality, breathing a harsher air. It is how I always feel when a movie ends.

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one—you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.