“If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.”
Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 6
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German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist 1953Related quotes

Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 11 : Transforming Our Society
Context: You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship — whether we work together or apart.

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6
“Poets: Old, New, and Aging”, p. 44
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

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As quoted at "InFuze Magazine" http://infuzemagazine.com/?p=130 (14 Dec 2011)

Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 36 (p. 363)