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Slavoj Žižek
“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
Slavoj Žižek

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

Edward W. Said
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
Edward W. Said

Paul Virilio
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”
Paul Virilio

Terry Pratchett
“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.

They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.

So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

year in books
James
652 books | 72 friends

Jack Li...
543 books | 44 friends

Stuart ...
84 books | 41 friends

Lauren
64 books | 10 friends

Jamie
301 books | 12 friends

Peter
308 books | 44 friends

Rachel ...
166 books | 2 friends

Catheri...
1,716 books | 47 friends

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