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    Donna Tartt
    “I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Without literature, life is hell.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: literature
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    Naomi Wolf
    “You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: attitude, critical-thinking, defiance, dissent, empowerment, freedom, social-order
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    Naomi Wolf
    “As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: advertising, beauty, images, marketing, media, scoiety, self-esteem
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    Naomi Wolf
    “The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behavior that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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    Naomi Wolf
    “It profits women little if we gain the whole world only to fear ourselves.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: feminism, gender, inspirational
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    Edward W. Said
    “To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism
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    Edward W. Said
    “Our role is to widen the field of discussion, not to set limits in accord with the prevailing authority.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Orientalism
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    Edward W. Said
    “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
    ― Edward Said
    tags: colonialism, imperialism, israile, palestine, postcolonialism, victim
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    Edward W. Said
    “We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”
    ― Edward W. Said
    tags: palestine
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    Edward W. Said
    “I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
    ― Edward Said, Palestine
    tags: comic-books, comics, liberation, subversion
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    Edward W. Said
    “Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.”
    ― Edward Said
    tags: culture-and-imperialism, edward-said
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    Edward W. Said
    “Texts are not finished objects.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism
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    Edward W. Said
    “They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.”
    ― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism
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    Edward W. Said
    “Being myself meant not only never being quite right, but also never feeling at ease, always expecting to be interrupted or corrected, to have my privacy invaded and my unsure person set upon.”
    ― Edward Said, Out of Place
    tags: إدوارد-وديع-سعيد
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    Edward W. Said
    “There are no rules by which intellectuals
    can know what to say or do; nor for the true
    secular intellectual are there any gods to be worshiped and looked to for unwavering guidance.”
    ― Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual
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    Edward W. Said
    “It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.”
    ― Edward Said
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
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    William Shakespeare
    “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    4547 likes



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