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"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination." - Saidiya Hartman

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"Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed." - David Graeber

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“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.” - Susan Sontag

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"Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage." – Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

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“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.” - Carole Maso

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"Mankind’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order." - Walter Benjamin, Illuminations

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@mbullobullo The book Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times is about this very topic: (No idea if it would interest you. Apologies if this comment is off the mark.)

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"Literary prizes can give the impression that art is a competition. Take it from a ferociously competitive person: Art is anti-competitive. Art is a long, unending conversation between generations." - Lauren Groff

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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothing shows through." – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

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Melancholy is the depression that says yes to life.

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“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.” - Paul Valéry

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"Conversation is when you don’t know what the next thing the person you are with is going to say." – John Cage

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"There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel." - Italo Calvino

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"The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless." - Hayao Miyazaki

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"Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible." - Alice Oswald

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"The modern fact is that we no longer believe in this world. We do not even believe in the events that happen to us, love, death, as if they only half concerned us. It is not we who make cinema; it is the world which looks to us like a bad film." – Gilles Deleuze, Cinema II

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“We understand the world better if we tremble with it.” - Édouard Glissant

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"Jean Cocteau said he preferred cats to dogs because no one has ever seen a police cat." – Michel Tournier

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"Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method." - Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism

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“There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.” - Lauren Berlant

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"I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive." - Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick

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"The world is cluttered with dead institutions." – Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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"I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone." – Jean Rhys

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"It won’t sell" is the censorship of capitalism.

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“The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.” - Ernst Bloch

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"I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone." – Jean Rhys

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"Obsessions are the most durable form of intellectual capital." - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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"Writing was always difficult for me, even though I had begun with what is known as vocation. Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not talent; one can be called and not know how to go." – Clarice Lispector

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"Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible." - Alice Oswald

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"Freedom is the process by which you develop a practice for being unavailable for servitude." - Toni Cade Bambara

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"My identifying features are rapture and despair." - Wislawa Szymborska

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"Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it." - Jericho Brown

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"I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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"If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes." - Sun Ra

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"Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage." – Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

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"Work your ass off to change the language & dont ever get famous." - Bernadette Mayer, Experiments

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"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism – you learn this as you go on." - Will Self

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"I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own life." – Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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"I am not myself with people […] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too." – Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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"I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them." - John Ashbery

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"I really love books that are kind of thin, but sort of heavy. Thin but incredibly intense. Books that seem like they took 10 years to write, but are almost like the notes for a book that is actually impossible." - Kate Zambreno

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"War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country." – Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“Sometimes you’re doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It’s not like you get to a point where you’re all right for the rest of your life.” - Patti Smith

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"We agree that we don’t want the world that exists, but do we want the same world? And a lot of politics, a lot of the humorlessness of the political, comes when you realize that the people who share your critique don’t share your desire.” — Lauren Berlant

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“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.” – Sharon Olds

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"No insurgent intellectual, no dissenting critical voice in this society escapes the pressure to conform… we are all vulnerable. We can all be had, co-opted, bought. There is no special grace that rescues any of us. There is only a constant struggle." - bell hooks

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"Well, Genet had a phrase that I repeat often: ‘Difficulty is an author’s respect for the reader’, or rather, making him or her think, collaborate – the work is incomplete without the reader’s input…" - Juan Goytisolo

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"What is meaning? I don’t know, but I may know what its opposite is: thinking that nothingness is easy to bear." - Mahmoud Darwish

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"Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it." - Jericho Brown

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The book you want to write and the book you don’t want to write are often the same book.

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"Hope has nothing to do with optimism…. It is in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven." - John Berger, The Seasons in Quincy

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"How fragile we are, between the few good moments." - Jane Hirshfield

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"I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive." - Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick

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"If we write about what we care about, we risk irrelevance. It's worth the risk. it's the only risk." - Lynne Tillman

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"Perhaps it is the role of art to put us in complicity with things as they happen." - Lyn Hejinian, Happily

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"I’m thinking of a labor movement, but one very different than the kind we’ve already seen. A labor movement that manages to finally ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people." - David Graeber

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"Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibility that they are founded on nothing." - John Ashbery

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“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.” – Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia

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“Behind every fascism there is a failed revolution.” - Walter Benjamin

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"You lose your grip and then you slip / Into the masterpiece…" - Leonard Cohen

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"If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned. " – Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

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The book you want to write and the book you don't want to write are often the same book.

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“There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.” - Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love

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"Listen carefully to the criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like - then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping." - Jean Cocteau

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"Jean Cocteau said he preferred cats to dogs because no one has ever seen a police cat." – Michel Tournier

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"Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another." - Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

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Anti-capitalist artist seeks wealthy patron.

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“Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.” - João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia

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"Perhaps Madame Bovary’s disease is not boredom. It’s being trapped as the character in someone else’s novel." – Kate Zambreno, Heroines

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I spent my formative years reading about Latin American dictatorships - disappearances, torture, etc. - all perpetrated by individuals trained at the School of the Americas. And every moment of that reading was spent thinking: sooner or later this will all happen here as well.

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"I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future." – Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

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“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.” - Arundhati Roy

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"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." - Edward Said

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"I had to live awhile before I understood that a lot of things can only be said joking and not joking at the same time." – Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

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"…storytelling reveals meaning without committing to the error of defining it." - Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

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"A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that clings to this accursed language, as if put there by stockbrokers' hands, hands worn smooth by coins." - Hugo Ball

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"Never read the comments." You don't have to, they're now president.

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"There are also different clarities. Some things are not meant to be clear; obscurity is their clarity. We should not underestimate obscurity. Obscurity is as rich as luminosity." - Etel Adnan

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"I’m living absolutely like an oyster. My novel is the rock I’m attached to, and I know nothing of what is happening in the world." - Gustave Flaubert to George Sand, 9 September 1869

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“The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.” - Ernst Bloch

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"To be making something as yet unformed, unknown – to be living in a deferred moment–is the most seductive way to exist." - Moyra Davey

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I think there is much to be said for listening, realizing you are wrong about something, publicly admitting it, and changing your thinking.

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"I did not write my Écrits in order for people to understand them, but in order for people to read them. It’s not the same thing at all." - Jacques Lacan

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“Who Remembers the Armenians?” Poem by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid.

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"Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method." - Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism

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"Radicality means taking the risk of being invisible, of not being seen at all, of being despised." – Olivier Assayas

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"I mean, you must take living so seriously that even at seventy, for example, you’ll plant olive trees— and not for your children, either, but because although you fear death you don’t believe it, because living, I mean, weighs heavier." - Nazim Hikmet, On Living

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"I think it is necessary to educate the new generations in the value of defeat. In not being a social climber. In this world of vulgar and dishonest winners, of false prevaricators, in the face of this anthropology of the winner from afar I prefer the one who loses." – Pasolini

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"One must not believe that something must be said correctly in order that it be correctly understood, and therein lies the secret of the living language." - Robert Musil

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