Quoted on his official website (30 December 2008) http://www.plumvillage.org/
“They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.”
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Tanith Lee
,
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Don't Bite the Sun
Part 4, Chapter 1 (p. 114)
Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
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