But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that...
I'm too old to know everything
(n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
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...
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.
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.
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
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.
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
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...
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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.