#surreal

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

I can’t define what love is. That’s like eating a pancake with a waffle instead of a fork. But you know it when you feel it, like petting a cat wearing a synthetic fur coat. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #love #surreal #funny

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#fancy #grow #grow up #happens #i

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion. ↗

— André Breton

#reality #surrealism #dreams

As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in such a way that it seems they are not making any progress; the walk down will require endurance. She looks up at the cluster of clouds which have been pencilled in neatly against the sky, and hopes it doesn’t rain. It occurs rapidly, a geisha brusquely folding shut her fan; the sun sets, and brilliant darkness replaces light. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#dreams #magic-realism #surrealism #dreams

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #constantly #creating #film #i

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#al #al gore #because #bush #debate

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dreams #funny #humor #life #sleeping

Which half do you want me to cut in half, Mr. Halfofhalf?
 The name’s Onequarter. Johnny Onequarter. And don’t you forget it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny-dialogue #surreal #funny