#delusion

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

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When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#delusion #famous #full #ham #i

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ↗

— Don Marquis

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I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#been #bit #delusions #dies #down

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. ↗

— George Osborne

#balance #budget #delusion #economic #just

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#affirmation #beginning #delusion #discipline #without

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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He had delusions of adequacy. ↗