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Quotes About Illusion

The eggshell of appearance split.
~ James Merrill
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
~ James O'Barr
Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.
~ James Patterson
When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.
~ James Patterson
Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.
~ James Patterson
and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?
~ James Patterson
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
~ James Patterson
On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.
~ James Patterson
Until now, I never noticed how much fantasy had to do with reality.
~ James Patterson
Murder can be made to look like suicide, and suicide can be made to look like murder.
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.
~ James Patterson
Deception is the art of war.
~ James Patterson
free will (noun): A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.
~ James Patterson
When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station
~ James Patterson
What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.
~ James Patterson
Delusional. Like Donald Trump with a comb.
~ James Patterson
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
~ James Patterson
Hell is a city much like Los Angeles
~ James Patterson
I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.
~ James Patterson
The world might look glossy and safe, but that's just paint, a shimmering clear coat.
~ James Patterson
There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.
~ James Patterson
AND NOW—THE GOOD STUFF You look at me, and I know what you're thinking: "Zac Efron without the hot legs.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
~ Douglas Wood