Quotes About Illusion

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Bollywood is a strange world.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Van Meegeren wasn't an artistic genius, but he intuitively understood something about human nature. Sometimes, we want to be fooled.

At best the chaotic river, alive in the senses briefly, is discountable, has no standing in definition; before the severity of Cartesian doubt, it does not exist

Hear my wife speak of John Lewis and you might picture a stately pleasure dome of ornamental cascades and hanging gardens, staffed by muscular Centaurs who know all there is to know about kitchenware and soft furnishings. But really it's just a big hall full of wanky chrome fridges.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

Life is not a dream it is a thing

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

It's an Insta-bloody-gram world out there, baby, where everyone looks like they're having a good time except you. And it ain't true. Folks are desperate to put up photos of themselves having super fun on social media because their conscience knows those times don't last.

Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.

it gets a little tiresome when you're so high you go to the movies and look up at the marquee and think the starting times are the ticket prices. I mean, I remember standing there going, 'Ten-fifteen? What kind of price is ten dollars and fifteen cents?' It's a hassle." "Yeah, one time I was putting gas in my car and thought the number of gallons was the price. I even got into an argument with the cashier. It was hilarious.

and throughout the summer and fall of 2002, the president and his aides prepared the battlefield of the American mind with apocalyptic warnings about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction: Baghdad had chemical and biological weapons, and it could build a nuclear weapon in a few years. The alarms were terrifying, and utterly false. The cause for war was an illusion.

The Russians were a nation of stage managers, Kennan wrote at the end of the war, and their deepest conviction was that things are not what they are, but only what they seemed to be.

But even if the Fourth of July celebrants in Kokomo knew about the Big Lie of Stephenson's life, would it have mattered? They believed because they wanted to believe.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT

we think we understand the world, giving investors a false sense of confidence, when in fact we always more or less misunderstand it.

Somos los que simulamos ser".»

La realidad es una mera ilusión, aunque muy persistente.» ALBERT EINSTEIN

Todo lo comúnmente aceptado como cierto es falso.» OSCAR WILDE, La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT EINSTEIN