“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.”
― Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
― Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
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“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”
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“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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