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He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Arundhati Roy

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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Care Civilization Gift Power Present World
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Literature Opposite Weapon
Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
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Angry Commitment Equality Intensity Justice
Excitement always leads to tears.
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Destination Excitement One Liner Path Tears
Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
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Justice Old Peace Reality Resistance Truth
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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Investment Legal Resistence Right Violence
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
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Destroy Destruction Weapon
Use your art to fight.
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Art Fight One Liner
That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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Care Love People Word
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Breathe Herself Journey Myself Possible Quiet World
Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Bone Break Constitution Ordinary Story
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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Break Dance Different Fiction Morning Myself Story Technology Wake Up
Some things come with their own punishments.
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Karma One Liner Punishment Reality Wisdom
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
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Break History Ideas Need Power Remember Revolution War Weapon
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Human Integrity Project Right

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

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