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people everywhere are trying not to feel. Cool, cool, cool, that's the word. That's the banner. From America first, but now us. I think of the groups of young people, political and social around London [...] the new socialists--that's what they have in common, a quality of measured emotion, coolness. In a world as terrible as this, limit emotion.
— Oct 29, 2026 05:54AM
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He suggested I should do a play based on [my novel]. A play which should take no sides but emphasize the essential tragedy of the colonial situation the tragedy of the whites. It is true, of course, what is poverty, what are hunger, malnutrition, homelessness, the pedestrian degradations (his word [...]) compared to the reality, the human reality of the white dilemma?
— Oct 24, 2026 04:04AM
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In our century it was 1917 in Russia. And in China. Then the well runs dry, because, as you say, the cruelty and the ugliness are too strong. Then the well fills slowly again. And then there's another painful lurch forward. [...] because every time the dream gets stronger. If people can imagine something, there'll come a time when they'll achieve it. [...] goodness. Kindness. The end of being animals.
— Sep 24, 2026 04:28PM