Source: Levels of Life
As quoted in Obituary by RayClaire at Glint (16 November 2011) http://r-c-d.diaryland.com/111117_11.html
I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
Strummer on Man, God, Law and the Clash (31 January 1988)
Source: The Nature of the Physical World (1928), Ch. 13 Reality
“It's the most powerful stuff in the universe.”
North and South Trilogy (1982-1987), Answer the Drum
Context: "Iron can destroy anything: families, fortunes, governments, whole countries. It's the most powerful stuff in the universe."
"Oh?" Orry's skeptical glance fell down on the Plain below. "You really think it's more powerful than a big army?"
"Without weapons - without this - there are no big armies."
Variant: We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good stuff.”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
