"There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies"

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.”
“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.
“A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate”
“The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.”
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
“The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.”
“I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.”

Source : "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.
“But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.”

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