"He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Reality Quotes #Paradoxical Quotes

“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
“Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.”
“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.”
“People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “The Late Child: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
“Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.”
“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.”

Source : Margaret Millar (1947). “Experiment in Springtime: A Novel”, New York : Random House

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