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“An emotional affair seems more innocent than a physical one, but it's far more dangerous.”
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
― Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937
― Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937
“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.”
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“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
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J.G. Ballard
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A group in honour of the late Jim Ballard, who pulled science fiction out of the adolescent male ghetto and gave us books full of beauty, excitement, ...more
Transgressive Fiction
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wikipedia: "Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and w ...more
Genet to Cooper - Dark Literature 1920 to Today
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Devoted to reading and discussing a range of dark and perverse literature from the early 20th century to today. Some writers that interest me are Gene ...more
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