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“We aren't human."

"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: alienation, caste, caste-system, classification, humanity, labeling, labels, oppression, outcast, outcasts, taxonomy

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“neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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“Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: imagination, missing, out-of-sight, wishing

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“Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary.”
― Jessie Burton, The Muse

tags: art, creative-process, creativity, writing-process

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“I don’t know your life history, but I think children need to believe in powers outside themselves. That’s why they read books about witches and wizards and God knows what. There is a human need for that which childhood normally exhausts. But if a child’s world is broken up by too much reality, that need goes underground.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

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