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Illusion Quotes - Page 20

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.37, Macmillan

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

Noam Chomsky's Seminar at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, February 2, 2000.

Saturday is an illusion.

"O óbvio ululante: as primeiras confissões" by Nelson Rodrigues, Editora Agir, (p. 194), 2007.

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

"New Again: The Rolling Stones". Interview with Andy Warhol, Amanda Duberman and Catherine Guinness, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 1977.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Martha Grimes (1999). “The Lamorna Wink: A Richard Jury Mystery”

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.47