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«The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.»
Author: Ramakrishna | Keywords: discard, discarding, make-believe, mixture
«Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so»
Author: Stephen Leacock | About: Christmas | Keywords: make-believe, presently
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«It's all make believe, isn't it?»
Author: Marilyn Monroe (Actress) | Keywords: make-believe
«With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke (Humorist, Journalist, Writer) | About: Achievement | Keywords: corporation, Disney, make-believe
«Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Actors and acting | Keywords: acting, animal, make-believe
«Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos»
Author: Dan Castellaneta (Actor, Writer) | About: Funny | Keywords: An elf, ELF, elves, Eskimo, Eskimos, Lisa, make-believe, vampire, vampires
«This is how I'm supposed to be in the land of make believe that don't believe in me.»
Author: Green Day | Keywords: make-believe
«Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: make-believe
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