"I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone."

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield

#Reality Quotes

“World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.”
“People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!”
“Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.”
“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”
“Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?”
“Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.”
“A warrior never worries about his fear.”
“We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration.”

Source : "John Legend launches campaign to end mass incarceration". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.msnbc.com. April 14, 2015.

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