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“Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

tags: creativity, inspiration, muse

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“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.”
― Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized

tags: manipulation, oppression

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“Texts are not finished objects.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

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“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation and differentiation of social space, space to be used for social purposes.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

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“my basic point being that stories are at the heart of what explorers and novelists say about strange regions of the world; they also become the method colonized people use to assert their own identity and the existence of their own history.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

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