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The Country and the City

by Raymond Williams

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Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

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Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

by Raymond Carver

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“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: censorship, language, speech, truth, writing

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“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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“A great ox stands on my tongue.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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