"people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living."

-- Liza Cody

#People Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death â€”Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lostâ€¦ .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, â€œHere is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.”

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”
“I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.”
“What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.”
“The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition
“Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.”
“There's a small club of women who are willing to age.”
“I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
“Iâ€™ve been to the Mountaintop”

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