#illusion

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature. ↗

— Victor Salva

#classic #create #creature #desire #ever

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#always #benefit #having #i #illusion

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#about #against #any #areas #being

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#defended #illusion #life #life is a #much

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#anyway #choose #equality #favor #freedom

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anderbo-com #art #beauty #behavior #books

The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#keiro #magic #sapphique #the-dark-enchanter #art

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. ↗

— J.M. Bernstein

#culture #illusion #industry #art

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage