Jean Rhys Quotes

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

What is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism..

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

That which is cannot be true.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

Ghost has always been about make-believe.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.