“As a realist, you must give me the watch and not the time.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: "Be realistic!"[…] You never hear someone go "Be realistic! Let me oil you."”
What It Is (2009)
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