42 Quotes About Make-believe
- Author Criss Jami
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Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
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- Author A.S. Neill
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Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.
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- Author A.S. Neill
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Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.
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- Author Micah Genest
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Into a land of fantasyWith haste we cast them all asideNo tearing if you cannot seeThat is what we all make-believe
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.
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- Author Sanhita Baruah
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It’s not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP...Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else...
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- Author Marisha Pessl
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There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head.
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- Author Sigmund Freud
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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- Author muse
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White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides ...
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