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“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”
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“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
“Memory revises, reorders, refigures, resignifies; it includes or omits, embellishes or represses, decorates or drops, according to imperatives of its own. Far from being a trustworthy transcriber of "reality," it is a shaper and shape shifter that takes liberties with the past as artful and lying as any taken by the creative writer.”
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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“Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening.Yet I have also come to learn that for writers and poets for whom national borders and cultural barriers are there to be questioned, again and again, there is, in truth, only one motherland, perpetual and portable.
Storyland.”
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Storyland.”
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Cristiana’s 2025 Year in Books
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