"I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting."

-- Emmet Gowin

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“I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.
“The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.”
“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.”
“I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.”

Source : "Busted? It was like torture". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.
“I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.633, Simon and Schuster
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

Source : Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.166, Penguin
“I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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