"Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters."

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Source : "Classics Revisited". Chapter: "Tolstoy: War and Peace", p. 192, 1968.

Kenneth Rexroth

#Reality Quotes #Matter Quotes #Masters Quotes

“Be interested rather than interesting”
“With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!”
“What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.”
“It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.”
“If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.”
“The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.”
“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”

Source : John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4

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