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“Without literacy,” Lenin declared, “there can be no politics – there can only be rumors, gossip, and prejudice.”3
“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Robert Service once said dying is easy, it’s the keeping on living that’s hard, and of course the poet was on the money, as poets usually are when it comes to smugly self-evident affirmations.”
― The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
― The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
“Jeremy supposed that a Christmas party full of elementary school professionals might be the worst place in the world. He would drift among them helplessly, like a grizzly bear in a roomful of children, expected not to eat anyone.”
― North American Lake Monsters
― North American Lake Monsters
“Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.”
― Post Captain
― Post Captain
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