#illusions

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#each #fortunate #i #i am #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

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

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage

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

We all suffer from dreams ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#false-hope #illusions #suffering #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

I'm not asking for forever," Tamani said. "Yet. I'm just asking for a moment. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded. "I mean he's helping me. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#tamani #illusion