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“A journalist's work depends on a willingness to ask questions of people who are better informed and more powerful than you.”
― The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
― The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
“love can be about more than attraction. I sometimes think it is more a question of sanctuary, a case of unassailable friendship.”
― Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
― Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
“If our starting point is a respect for nature and people, diversity is an inevitable consequence. If technology and the needs of the economy are our starting point, then we have what we are faced with today—a model of development that is dangerously distanced from the needs of particular peoples and places and rigidly imposed from the top down.”
― Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
― Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“Any support we get from persons of flesh and blood is like Monopoly money; it’s not legal tender in that sphere where we have to do our work. In fact, the more energy we spend stoking up on support from colleagues and loved ones, the weaker we become and the less capable of handling our business.”
― The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
― The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
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