"You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen."

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Eliza Griswold

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“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each otherâ€™s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love â€“ think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”

Source : Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.186, Penguin
“A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.”
“The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.”
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

Source : Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9
“What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? What kind of men should we have as the result of the exchange?”
“Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike”

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