"Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight."

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Source : Letter, 11 Aug. 1915

Joseph Conrad

#Reality Quotes #Sight Quotes #Usual Quotes

“I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it”
“There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.”

Source : "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2014.
“When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.”
“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”
“For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.”
“International law in its counter-hegemonic uses is very important in any domain where issues of legitimacy are significant, but is rarely able to have a corresponding behavioural impact.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time.”
“Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.”

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