#illu

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. ↗

— Norton Juster

#fantasy #fiction #humor #illusions #imaginary

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#youth #imagination

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#imagination #perfection #real-knowledge #imagination

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book. ↗

— Chris Raschka

#children-s-book #children-s-literature #illustration #inspiration #kid-s-book

My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies. ↗

— Immortal Technique

#illusionists #inspirational #inspirational

How many minutes will still die in the swamp of your illusion of being human? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#romanticism #life

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#life #time #life

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#life