"He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing."

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Source : Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”

Aidan Chambers

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“My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.”
“He told me that once, in the war, heâ€™d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didnâ€™t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldierâ€™s head. He didnâ€™t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.”
“I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.”
“One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.”
“Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people”
“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

Source : "Knowledge at the End of the Information Age". Bertha Bassam lecture, University of Toronto, February 07, 2008.
“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.”
“He is called the horse”

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