"Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

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There is a weird power in a spoken word.

More Joseph Conrad quotes
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the po...
"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising f...
"...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or ...