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Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
william hazlitt— Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI
I had won notable victories on paper and the map with the aid of greaseproof pencils and a typewriter. In the course of this very campaign, if one may dignify the disaster thus, I had seen French generals create imaginary "masses of manoeuvre" with strokes of the crayon and dispose of hostile concentrations, that unahappily were on the ground as well as on the map, with sweeps of the eraser. Who was I to criticise them, hero as I was of a hundred "Chinagraph wars" of make-believe?
frederick e. morgan— Peace and War: A Soldier's Life (1961), p. 138
Say, its only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.
yip harburg— "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose) - YouTube video
Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.
yip harburg— "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose)
Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true , make-believe or spontaneous life ; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.
— Stanis?aw Lem, in A Perfect Vacuum, p.58
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
joseph campbell— Chapter 2 (The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949))
