Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our … - Robert Dessaix

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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

Robert Dessaix

Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.

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Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space. . . to be bathed in. . . epiphanous delight.

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Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

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I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was about the great notion of sitting on the mountain and waiting for the muses to cross the stream, and give you the symbols that would allow you to create. The word wait seems to me to be terribly important.

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You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.

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I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

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