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“Hope is the weapon of the masses and the poor. Hope is the thread between brutal reality and the imagined heaven. Hope is the only medicine in the lives of people who are wounded by society. Hope is the chance to bring change. Those who mock the existence of hope can never understand the quest of the exploited masses for emancipation.”
― Yogesh Maitreya, Flowers on the Grave of Caste

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“My poems only come when I have almost lost the ability to utter a word. To speak, in a way, of the unspeakable.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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“Isn’t that funny?’ Ramy glanced sideways at him. ‘The British are turning my homeland into a narco-military state to pump drugs into yours. That’s how this empire connects us.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“It’s French, Letty.’ Ramy rolled his eyes. ‘Latin’s flimsiest daughter. How hard could it be?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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“the phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets between him and his art; who has kept his freedom when most of his contemporaries have long ago lost theirs; who is ashamed of nothing but being ashamed; who says whatever he has it in his mind to say, and has taught himself an accent, a cadence, indeed a language, for saying it in which, though they are not English, but Irish, will give him his place among the lesser immortals of our tongue.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: essays, inspirational, writing

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