"How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!"

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Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.296, Dell

Belva Plain

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“I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.”
“The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.”
“Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?”
“If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.”
“Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.”
“If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny â€“ and, perhaps, even do it well.”
“I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.”
“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.

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