Quotes About Illusion

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

So I wish you first a Sense of theatre; only Those who love illusion And know it will go far: Otherwise we spend our Lives in a confusion Of what we say and do with Who we really are.

But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time

We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.

Let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them.

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them. I don't write autobiography.

When I was me I remembered I could remember what was not there but may have been there once

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.