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“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― The Telling
― The Telling
“Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
Animal Farm Readalong #AnimalFarmReadalong
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Think Galactic
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Think Galactic is a Chicago-based reading group that seeks to discuss speculative fiction [science fiction, fantasy, & horror] from a radical left per ...more
metawhores
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hot people book recommedations, discussion, monthly book reads and all round funsies we'll read anything from literary fiction to non-fiction to whate ...more
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