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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...more

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What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

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Judgement is poverty.

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It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

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Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our...more

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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the ch...more

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This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and...more