"Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold."

-- John Muir

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“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”

Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
“Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.”
“Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.”
“Suggestion is a literary strategy.”
“Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it”
“Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.”
“Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.”

Source : John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.46, A-R Editions, Inc.
“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”

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