"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."

-- Emily Carr

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“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.”
“The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.”
“The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.”
“Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.”
“Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.”

Source : Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company
“I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.”
“I do keep pre-occupied.”

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