"And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it."

-- Graham Swift

#Real Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.”
“...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesnâ€™t hurt to smell good too.”
“There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.”
“I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.”
“Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.”
“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
“I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.”
“I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.”

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