“When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.”
Robert Crumb (1943) American cartoonist
"Simon Hattenston talks to Robert Crumb" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics, The Guardian, 7 March 2005.
“Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 247.
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