"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

-- Ann Beattie

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.”
“It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.”
“The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.”
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”
“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.”

Source : R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”
“If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?”
“God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.”
“We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.”

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