Real Climbing Ropes

Famous quotes containing the words real, climbing and/or ropes:

    As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    An old, mad man still climbing in his ghost,
    My fathers’ ghost is climbing in the rain.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here. He squats in me.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)