Joseph Conrad

 

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight

 

Exterminate all brutes

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook

 

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot

 

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality