"The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss"

-- Brian Aldiss

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“The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.”
“Iâ€™m very romantic. I really believe in true love, a love that you only find once in a lifetime, if you have the chance. Because, I think that many people never find it, which is very sad. But, Iâ€™m not a guy who flirts easily with girls. I believe that thereâ€™s somebody out there for me. Iâ€™m still searching.”
“In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.”
“When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).”
“I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.”
“A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.”
“If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.”
“Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute?”

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