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“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐯 🎨 🐰
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“The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one’s ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn’t possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.” ―Lauren Collins
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“When a man cooks, it is an occasion, an event to be relished; when a woman cooks, it is relegated to care work.” ―Mayukh Sen
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“It occurs to me that the person who took the time to share the idea that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you might well have been black.” ―Camille Dungy
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Self care “is not self-indulgence—it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ―Audre Lorde
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“Eight years ago, if a candidate for a major party was endorsed by the America Nazi Party and the Aryan Nation it’s something [major figures] would feel obliged to denounce. Now, that apparently isn’t reason enough to say anything.” ―Anthony Bourdain
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“What if sex was holy, and war was obscene?” ―Alicia Keys
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“Russian life, I soon found out, was marked less by fear than by cynicism: the all-pervasive idea that no institution is to be trusted, because no institution is bigger than the avarice of the person in charge.” ―Michael Idov
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“The left has a special talent for counterproductive, theory-enabled wallowing.” ―Laurie Penny
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“When they are asked by history what they did during the Trump years, the worst of them will confess that they bobbled their heads like dumb dolls, while the best will merely say they kept their heads down.” ―Richard Cohen
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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ―Pablo Picasso
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“Oh! Were I but her slave, following her footsteps. Ah! Then should I joy in seeing the forms of all her limbs.” ―Egyptian love poem, 1492–1488 BCE
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“Do the dead frighten you?” ―Ser Waymar Royce
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“That was the genius of the system. It didn’t need a giant security apparatus. It needed only you, the citizen, to be implicated just enough to have something to lose but not desperate enough that you’d be tempted to lose it.” ―Michael Idov
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“Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“As far as I am concerned positive thinking will fucking ruin your life. ‘Just think positive’ is a precursor to ‘it gets better’, and the hard reality is it is only going to get much, much worse for our most vulnerable.” ―Chloe King
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“But there is no hiding, she has learned. No matter what you do or where you go, the world always finds you.” ―Thomas French
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“God is dead and man is very much alive and has a wonderful future.”
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“And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.” ―Simone De Beauvoir
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“Of course, being newly single sort of feels like diving into a pail of garbage all the time.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
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“When you’re washed up and burned out from putting your body on the line to fight the state, it’s especially galling to be told to share a smile and eat more whole grains.” ―Laurie Penny
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“I have heard feminism be dismissed as a form of self-indulgence.” ―Sara Ahmed
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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ―Clive Barker
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“As a modern phenomenon, loneliness is visible in loss of social capital. Americans of all classes and political persuasions report having fewer close friends than ever before; many say they have no one they can confide in or count upon in an emergency.”
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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is an inherent ‘sell-by’ date for any fad, because mass consumption dilutes brand potency, turning trendy favorites into mere entries in the lexicon of always-available logos.”
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“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
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“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“But of course, people of colour will rarely, if ever, be called experts on how to simply be themselves.” ―Lorraine Chuen
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“Now that I’ve been on both sides of the fence, I’m very happy to report that things are just as I’d assumed they would be. That love is love, wherever you’re standing.” ―Aubrey Hirsch
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“I call him the mascot of white supremacy because ain’t no long con like the idea that white people are superior.” ―Awesomely Luvvie
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“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“But we delude ourselves if we don’t acknowledge that there is a difference between being admitted and being welcomed.” ―Todd Kliman
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“[Real love is] about what you do for another person over the course of days and weeks and years, the work put in to care and cathexis.” ―Laurie Penny
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“It's as if racialized folks and their ways of life are objects to be observed—study material, of sorts—rather than entire countries, cultures, and individual complex lives.” ―Lorraine Chuen
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ―Pablo Picasso
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“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ―Oscar Wilde
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“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ―Ansel Adams
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“If hope is too hard to manage, the least we can do is take basic care of ourselves.” ―Laurie Penny
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“They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“So, really, problems are just another word for life.” ―Sook-Yin Lee
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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ―Vincent Van Gogh
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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ―Edgar Degas
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“Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” ―E.B. White
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“Thinking about who you want to be and what kind of life you want to live, and going after that, is the more adult thing to do, rather than just unthinkingly doing what everyone else is doing.” ―M. Kumar
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“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“[Trumpzilla] has shown a willingness to assert his personal control over reality. And he has positioned himself as a Janus-faced figure who can present one version of reality to his followers and another version to the outside world.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.” ―Lester Bangs
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“[Caitlyn] Jenner’s material wealth is at odds with the lived experiences of most transgender women – particularly trans women of colour, who often can’t afford to undertake bodily transformation in quite such a spectacular fashion.” ―Michael Lovelock
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“Planning the end of a relationship is probably the closest many of us will ever get to knowing what it’s like to plot a murder.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 💀
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“But aversion arising from fear is a form of denial, too.” ―David Wallace-Wells
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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ―George Bernard Shaw 🐎
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“...personally, I’ve never been rustled out of bed by a stranger who became my new girlfriend.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“You cannot but sense his horrified fascination at the havoc that a wee willie can wreak. It's a sort of reversed male self absorption.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“I could sit around and analyze the foolishness of men, since men are fundamentally the children in any relationship.” ―Ridley Scott
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