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Writing Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is,…
- Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
- Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
- A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
- A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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