#illu

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#illuminate #lights #like #men #most

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#be happy #embrace #happy #illusion #must

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want. ↗

— David Copperfield

#get #i #illusion #level #magic

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#books #create #i #illustrating #kid

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#anymore #anything #believe #change #changed

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #around #celebrity #confuse #country

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Voltaire

#first of all #illusion #pleasures

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human