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167ab00
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How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.
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liberation
novel
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Don DeLillo |
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f3e2342
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People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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accepting
liberation
gossip
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Gregory Maguire |
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2f2b7bf
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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
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artists
arts
women
empowerment
restrictions
encroachment
careers
occupation
skills
liberation
women-writers
gender
creativity
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Virginia Woolf |
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e346027
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"An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy."
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risk
nature
freedom
empowerment
happiness
wildness
liberation
self-responsibility
environment
mountains
risk-taking
los-angeles
desert
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Christopher Isherwood |
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22692c0
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.
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liberation
paralyzing
upsetting
leaving
perfect
never-again
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John Green |
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1b71c93
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.
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freedom
liberation
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Robert Fulghum |
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d8dd179
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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trust
love
doomsday-scenarios
ending-violent-jihad
mass-exterminations
humanity-and-society
liberation
compassion-heals-lives
national-history-day
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
police-reform
police-shootings
extinction
human-nature
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Aberjhani |
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49bdc31
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Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on.
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laughter
liberation
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Georges Bataille |
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6e4caa9
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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
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reading
fiction
liberation
value
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Jeanette Winterson |
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7eff9ca
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"Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of the radical freelance scribbler. I have lived to see Ronald Reagan called "a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda" by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which blacked out an interview with Milos Forman broadcast live on Moscow TV); to see Mao Zedong relegated like a despot of antiquity. I have also had the extraordinary pleasure of revisiting countries--Greece, Spain, Zimbabwe, and others--that were dictatorships or colonies when first I saw them. Other mini-Reichs have melted like dew, often bringing exiled and imprisoned friends blinking modestly and honorably into the glare. --it still moves, all right."
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television
freedom
milos-forman
postcolonialism
ronald-reagan
moscow
czechoslovakia
despotism
liberation
zimbabwe
mao-zedong
journalism
dictatorship
spain
soviet-union
united-states
propaganda
colonialism
russia
communism
greece
cold-war
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Christopher Hitchens |
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0296457
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I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.
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antiwar
liberation
iraq
iraq-war
liberty
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Christopher Hitchens |
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90c01f9
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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It's not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything--it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naive statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention.
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humanism
politics
religion
dflp
moscow
dogmatism
orwell
liberation
middle-east
edward-said
soviet-union
rationality
palestine
palestinians
religious-extremism
communism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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55ed6dc
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The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had to sneak around for about a thousand years tricking men into doing things they wanted. So they manipulate you instead of telling you what they want, so you never know where the hell you are. And then they get mad at you and bitch.
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women-s-rights
women
complaints
sneaky
women-s-lib
liberation
women-s-liberation
tricks
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Jennifer Crusie |
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d9fed06
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Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he does not know his own real interests; and that if he were enlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man would at once cease to do nasty things, would at once become good and noble because, being enlightened and understanding his real advantage, he would see his own advantage in the good and nothing else... . Oh, the babe! Oh, the pure, innocent child!
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liberation
reticence
privacy
innocence
self-interest
shame
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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21606da
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She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
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immortality
freedom
meaning
philosophy
self-abandonment
liberation
thought
soul
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Iain Pears |
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5355f82
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Cuba will be free. I already am.
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suicide
liberation
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Reinaldo Arenas |
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d3e147e
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Ich will doch sehen, wer mich halt, - wer mich zwingt, - wer der Mensch ist, der einen Menschen zwingen kann.
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freedom
liberation
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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55180d2
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If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate until they are forcefully pointed out to us. A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons, so that practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable are now seen as intolerable.
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equality
liberation
veganism
vegan
oppression
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Peter Singer |
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c1d88d5
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Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hande in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht durfte?
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liberation
revolution
resistance
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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4706689
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Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books - it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.
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promiscuity
liberation
writers
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Christopher Bram |