"After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere."

-- Boris Spassky

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes

“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Source : Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall, delivered 2 December 1964, The University of California at Berkeley
“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”
“How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?”
“Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.”
“Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.”
“Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.”
“Listen to and sing the music of heaven.”

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