"The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time."

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Source : 1921 The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.

Clarence Day

#Life Quotes #Real Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.”
“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality”
“Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?”
“Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.”
“Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.”
“Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.”
“We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?”

Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.81, Broadway Books
“From now on, don't do this, even for me. We don't have an employer-employee relationship right now. I'm a person and you're a person. Why does it have to be so one-sided? Why do only women...Why only you, Yoo Kyeong, have to do things like that? 'So, I'll try to look good, in any way that I can.' Let go of such thoughts. When you're on TV, you look wonderful, full of confident. You shine.”

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