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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."

"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."

"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."

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"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
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"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."

"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
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