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Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.


Peter Conrad

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CONRAD BURNS The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don't allow for mistakes.
CONRAD ANKER Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a ...
CONRAD BLACK Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but th...
CONRAD HILTON It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
JOSEPH CONRAD Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in ev...
JOSEPH CONRAD The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed kno...
JOSEPH CONRAD Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
CONRAD AIKEN Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely t...
JOSEPH CONRAD Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- bu...
JOSEPH CONRAD An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the...
JOSEPH CONRAD You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you...
STEVEN CONRAD My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental --- for the externals, --...
JOSEPH CONRAD The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...
JOSEPH CONRAD