"Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved."

-- Luke Rhinehart

#Giving Up Quotes #Desire Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.”
“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”
“Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you canâ€™t make anything.”
“As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.”

Source : "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.
“How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?”
“Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.”
“A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin
“Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.”

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