Realism Truth Quotes

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Erich Maria Remarque
“Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.”
Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam

Ken Kesey
“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”
Ken Kesey

John Fante
“Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbours, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”
John Fante, The Brotherhood of the Grape

Garth Ennis
“...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.”
Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“In Writing Fiction, there is no limitation of imagination....Fr Fr”
Adam Saxton

Pontius Joseph
“If all you talk about is what you have, it shows the less you have.”
Pontius Joseph

“WHAT IS 'THE LAMB'? WHY IS 'THE TYGER' THEN?-WILLIAM ...

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Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri.