"To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story."

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Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.56, Wesleyan University Press

Lyn Hejinian

#Stories Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.”

Source : "James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.
“the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.”
“Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.”

Source : News and Views magazine, p. 1, 1945.
“The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.”

Source : "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.
“No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.”
“The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.”
“Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.”

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