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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.

Arundhati Roy

Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
Things can change in a day.
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Change One Liner
I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
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Feeling Lonely Myself
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
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They’re usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there’s the business of war.
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Business Reason War
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government’s policies, that are so hated.
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Government Hate People Politics
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
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.
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Country Depression Greatness Growth Key Way Weapon
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.
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Culture Difficult Injustice Need People Power Resistance Society
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Dangerous Time Worst
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
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Human Integrity Project Right
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
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Death Kill Lose Mindset People War Willing Win
If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Count Dreams Happiness
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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Beautiful Change Deep Destruction Inspirational
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It’s very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.
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Fiction Important Politics Reality Story Truth Understand Wife Writing

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