"We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania."

-- Bob Brown

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“It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.”
“The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.”
“shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.”
“How can it not be right when it's done with love?”
“Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?”

Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.398, Wesleyan University Press
“The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.”
“How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.”
“Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.”

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