"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

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Source : "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

Quentin Crisp

#Writing Quotes #Realist Quotes #Satirist Quotes

“Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.”
“History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra
“People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.”
“May the forests be with you and with your children.”
“Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.”
“I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.”
“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.”
“To everything there is a season.”

Source : Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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