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“Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. Not only is it doomed in any country which retains a totalitarian structure; but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. There is no way out of this. No tirades, no pious platitudes can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind.”
— Aug 17, 2026 07:35AM
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S.E. Sonder
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“The real objective of socialism is human brotherhood. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles or get themselves killed in civil wars, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step.”
— Aug 15, 2026 06:52PM
S.E. Sonder
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“The proof of this is the extreme difficulty of seeing any literary merit in a book that seriously damages your deepest beliefs. And no book is ever truly neutral. Some or other tendency is always discernible, in verse as much as in prose, even if it does no more than determine the form and the choice of imagery.”
— Aug 11, 2026 11:58AM