Yip Harburg Quotes

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

It's amazing to dwell in the world of fantasy and fear.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

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

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

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

A dream itself is but a shadow.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

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