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"To survive what we have termed future shock, one must search out totally new ways to anchor oneself, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are shaking under the impact of accelerative thrust.
Before that, however, he must understand how the effects of acceleration creep into his personal life and affect, alter his behaviour.
He must, in other words, understand transience." — Jun 09, 2016 12:45AM
"To survive what we have termed future shock, one must search out totally new ways to anchor oneself, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are shaking under the impact of accelerative thrust.
Before that, however, he must understand how the effects of acceleration creep into his personal life and affect, alter his behaviour.
He must, in other words, understand transience." — Jun 09, 2016 12:45AM
“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
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“Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.”
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
― On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
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