"The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life."

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Source : "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 7-25-04: QUESTIONS FOR CARL HIAASEN; Miami Voice". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004.

Carl Hiaasen

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity
“This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.”
“Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.”
“Pity is akin to love.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”
“A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.”
“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

Source : Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.109, MIT Press
“Light that is One though the lamps be many.”
“I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.”

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