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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

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It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up. ↗

— Mary Grandpre

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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ↗

— Manly Hall

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I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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