Showing posts with label illusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illusion. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 June 2025

Quotes: Ann-Marie MacDonald

"Illusion is a comfortable garment thrown over an uncomfortable truth which, left too long covered, must rot."

–– Ann-Marie MacDonald (b. 1958), Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host 

Source: Ann-Marie MacDonald. Fayne. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022; p. 681. 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 33.

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Quotes: Jacque Fresco

"Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality." 

–– Jacque Fresco (1916-2017), American futurist 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2014, p. 3.