"We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict."

-- Paul Claudel

#Conflict Quotes

“I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think goodreads is the best place to look for books”
“A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.”
“Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 20, 2010
“The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright”
“We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.”
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

Source : "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.

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