#illusions

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

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

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. ↗

— Richard Bach

#change

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death

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

Men," Chelsea muttered derisively... ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#men

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#four #had #happy #happy days #i