Thunderheart - Quotes

 Jimmy Looks Twice:
We choose the right to be who we are. We know the difference between the reality of freedom and the illusion of freedom. There is a way to live with the earth and a way not to live with the earth. We choose the way of earth. It's about power, Ray.
 

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Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show - Quotes

 Fluffy Thing #2:
What's animation?
Fluffy Thing #1:
Animation is the frame-by-frame photographic process in which the illusion of movement is created, and anything is possible in animation, all for the enjoyment of the viewing audience. And through the illusion of animation movement, all thanks to the magic of animation.
Fluffy Thing #2:
You mean people are watching us right now?
Fluffy Thing #1:
Right now! [smiles]
Fluffy Thing #1:
[pause]
Fluffy Thing #2:
But I'm not wearing any pants.
Fluffy Thing #1:
[still smiling, exited] Me neither!
 

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The Matrix Reloaded - Quotes

 Merovingian:
Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.
 

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Deconstructing Harry - Quotes

 Doris:
It's tradition.
Harry Block:
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
 

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The Rules of Attraction - Quotes

 
[aftergetting high, Sean starts to think]
Sean Bateman:
I need to get some more pot. I'm running out. Then I need to get laid. Where the fuck was Lauren tonight? That Lara girl was kind of hot. I could bang her and feel good about it. But I'd rather have Lauren. I wonder why? It would just ruin my illusion of her purity. Whoa, is that really what I want? [pause]
Sean Bateman:
I need to get laid. [sniffs]
Sean Bateman:
Then I need to get more pot.
 

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Conversations with Other Women - Quotes

 Woman:
The illusion of effortlessness requires a great effort indeed.
 

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Michael Clayton - Quotes

 
[first lines]
Arthur Edens:
Michael. Dear Michael. Of course it's you, who else could they send, who else could be trusted? I... I know it's a long way and you're ready to go to work... all I'm saying is wait, just wait, just-just-just... please hear me out because this is not an episode, relapse, fuck-up, it's... I'm begging you Michael. I'm begging you. Try and make believe this is not just madness because this is not just madness. Two weeks ago I came out of the building, okay, I'm running across Sixth Avenue, there's a car waiting, I got exactly 38 minutes to get to the airport and I'm dictating. There's this, this panicked associate sprinting along beside me, scribbling in a notepad, and suddenly she starts screaming, and I realize we're standing in the middle of the street, the light's changed, there's this wall of traffic, serious traffic speeding towards us, and I... I-I freeze, I can't move, and I'm suddenly consumed with the overwhelming sensation that I'm covered with some sort of film. It's in my hair, my face... it's like a glaze... like a... a coating, and... at first I thought, oh my god, I know what this is, this is some sort of amniotic - embryonic - fluid. I'm drenched in afterbirth, I've-I've breached the chrysalis, I've been reborn. But then the traffic, the stampede, the cars, the trucks, the horns, the screaming and I'm thinking no-no-no-no, reset, this is not rebirth, this is some kind of giddy illusion of renewal that happens in the final moment before death. And then I realize no-no-no, this is completely wrong because I look back at the building and I had the most stunning moment of clarity. I... I... I... I realized Michael, that I had emerged not from the doors of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm, but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the... the-the-the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other, larger, more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. The stench of it and the stain of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep cleansing breath and I set that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself as clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is, as true a thing as I believe that I have witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time. And Michael, the time is now.
 

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Coast to Coast - Quotes

 Barnaby Pierce:
I want to dispel one illusion in case you seriously have it: nobody suddenly sings like Pavarotti, not even Pavarotti
 

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The Wizard of Gore - Quotes

 Montag the Magnificent:
Eyes front. You cannot move. You cannot even know if you are really here. One of magic's many beauties is that the illusion can begin long before the audience even knows it is going to be tricked. Trick. A word with so many meanings. You fake your own reality. You, the things that you believe about yourself. Delusions. The things that you tell yourself. Lies. Are you ready for the truth?
 

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Robert Fanney - Quotes

 Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms. 

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Laozi - Quotes

 Manifest plainness,

Embrace simplicity,

Reduce selfishness,

Have few desires. 

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Quotes

 Here too it 

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Anne Rice - Quotes

 To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, 

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Without a Trace - Quotes

 Jack Malone:
What makes you assume I was a Catholic?
Fr. Sean Walker:
You have the disillusionment of someone that used to believe. [Jack nods]
Fr. Sean Walker:
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be presumptuous.
Jack Malone:
Hey, presume away.
 

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Clive Barker - Quotes

 [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. 

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Richard Bach - Quotes

 You're always free to change your mind

and choose a different future, or a different past.



 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .  

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Georges Perec - Quotes

 Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indiff 

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Daniel J. Boorstin - Quotes

 The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. 

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Alan Wilson Watts - Quotes

 I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. 

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Sherman Alexie - Quotes

 That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice.

I'm traveling heavy with illusions. 

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Francesca Lia Block - Quotes

 War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. (54-55) 

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Virginia Woolf - Quotes

 Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? 

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Sorin Cerin - Quotes

 Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?  

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Kresley Cole - Quotes

 Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine] 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. 

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J.D. Salinger - Quotes

 You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.'



Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?'



The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself. 

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Jens Peter Jacobsen - Quotes

 And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with the power or the fervor she had expected. She had imagined it all different, and had imagined herself different, too. In dreams and poems everything had been, as it were, beyond the sea; the haze of distance had mysteriously veiled all the restless mass of details and had thrown out the large lines in bold relief, while the silence of distance had lent its spirit of enchantment. It had been easy then to feel the beauty; but now that she was in the midst of it all, when every little feature stood out and spoke boldly with the manifold voices of reality, and beauty was shattered as light in a prism, she could not gather the rays together again, could not put the picture back beyond the sea. Despondently she was obliged to admit to herself that she felt poor, surrounded by riches that she could not make her own. 

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Mark Twain - Quotes

 Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. 

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Virginia Woolf - Quotes

 Growing up is loosing some illusions, in order to acquire others. 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes

 That's the whole burden of this novel 

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Libba Bray - Quotes

 We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth. 

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T.S. Eliot - Quotes

 There will be time, there will be time

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. 

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