Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 84; spoken by Hughie
“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this.”
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds on 28th August 1870.
Letter to Aurelia Plath (August 21, 1962)
Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1976)
On becoming an unknowing pioneer in the romance genre in “Interviews: Beverly Jenkins” https://bookpage.com/interviews/19354-beverly-jenkins-romance#.XflqF-lKjcs in BookPage (Feb 2016)
"Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80 http://books.google.com/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&q=%22elder+sister%22&pg=PA80
Other works
“Aye. Like knows like, sister”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 6, "Lorbanery" (Ged)
Source: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 47
Context: Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
