"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate."

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Source : "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

Robert Crumb

#Real Quotes #World Quotes #Come Up Quotes

“When the voice of Christ speaks through the Word, then you will arise, and leave all, and follow Him.”
“Never allow your fear to grow larger than your faith”
“The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of womenâ€™s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press
“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”
“The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.”

Source : Carmen Boullosa (2007). “Cleopatra Dismounts: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.”
“I guess economists, itâ€™s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,”
“That's the conditions that prevail!”

Source : "Current Biography: Who's News and Why". Book by Anna Rothe (p. 168), 1946.

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