Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
(n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
I'm too old to know everything
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation and hostility … The lobby was the meeting place for various groups still caught up in the illusion...
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Strike said Huh again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.
your facethrough the blurred visionof my disillusioned eyesmergeswith the rest of them.
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one'...
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys,...
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the b...
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.