“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”
Source: White Oleander
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Colm Tóibín (1955) Irish novelist and writer
World of Colm Tóibín, writer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9108553/World-of-Colm-Toibin-writer.html, The Daily Telegraph (27 February 2012)
“What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Some dreams are best not to wake up from.”
Hiroo Onoda (1922–2014) Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Attributed by Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda" https://archive.is/20120720155407/search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070116jk.html, The Japan Times, 16 January 2007
Kate Chopin book The Awakening
The Awakening (1899)
Source: The Awakening, and Selected Stories
Context: The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.
“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit. <br class="br"> Pierre Nozière http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Pierre_Nozi%C3%A8re_-_Livre_premier._Enfance#VI._LES_DEUX_TAILLEURS (1899), book I, ch. VI: Les deux tailleurs