
“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Memoirs (1796)
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 1 (p. 7)
“It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.”
Memoirs (1796)
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 132.
Context: Selection does not work by cutthroat competition between individuals, but by favouring whatever behavior is useful to the group. People with crude notions of "Darwinism" make an intriguing blunder here. They refuse the mere fact of competing, that is, of needing to share out a resource with the motive of competitiveness or readiness to quarrel.
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)
“I love, I love, I’m ready to love — yes”
Ready
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
On how the interview process is different when writing a work of fiction in “An Interview with Lynn Nottage” https://www.theintervalny.com/interviews/2015/10/an-interview-with-lynn-nottage/ in The Interval (2015 Oct 14)
“IF THERE BE HERE LESSON OR MORAL, IT LIES BEYOND THE COMPETENCE OF HIM WHO INSCRIBES THIS RECORD.”
Source: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 19