Quotes about Illusion

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

Anthony moved about, magician-like, turning the mushroom lamp into an orange glory

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!' He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It

Not only for that night but for the days and weeks that followed his books were to be but furniture and his friends only people who lived and walked in a nebulous outer world from which he was trying to escape.

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former as the stage one sometimes sees in the theatre behind the real stage stands to the latter.

Numbers are the most dangerous of all illusions