#illusion

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. ↗

— David Copperfield

#get #i #illusion #level #magic

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

A woman should be an illusion. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#should #woman

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#distinction #future #illusion #only #past

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. ↗

— Voltaire

#fine #illusion #our #today

I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#both #cinema #cinemas #course #disillusioned

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. ↗

— Simone Weil

#attained #detached #great #illusions #only

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#any #blindly #follow #hallucination #illusion

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#been #could #everything #forever #go

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#belief #illusion #illusions #itself