"To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Reality Quotes #Disease Quotes #Phantoms Quotes

“They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.”
“Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.”

Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”
“I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (1996). “Beauty and Sadness”, Vintage Books
“When I started teaching, I would get miffed if a student asked me to write him or her a recommendation for law school - I'd feel like that's not what we were doing in the course. But now I see that person as someone who might be gainfully employed. I bring in a lot of people to speak to my classes, and I've gotten to the point where I've expanded the type of guests I invite to include people both inside and outside of the traditional publishing world.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marxâ€™s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.”
“I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience”
“A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.”
“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.”

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