#illusion

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#first #his #illusion #man #sweetheart

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#illusion #know #our #own #photography

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#evil #fault #faults #full #further

Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#average #babies #because #been #discovered

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#bottle #doing #eat #food #friends

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#amount #artists #back #columbia #companies

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#age #before #changes #day #disillusioned

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#care #chinese #gay #i #illusion

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. ↗

— Judy Garland

#dies #how #illusion #lost #strange