unreality quotes

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.

- Sir Peter Courtney Quennell
  The Marble Foot: an Autobiography,1905^1938, p.227.