I'm too old to know everything
Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.
(n.) The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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.
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.
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
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.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
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...
All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
your facethrough the blurred visionof my disillusioned eyesmergeswith the rest of them.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
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