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  • #1
    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Dissonance is the truth about harmony.”
    Theodor W. Adorno

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #3
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #4
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #5
    James Joyce
    “Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”
    James Joyce

  • #6
    Kathy Acker
    “GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”
    Kathy Acker

  • #7
    Arundhati Roy
    “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

    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.

    Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
    Arundhati Roy, War Talk

  • #8
    Jonathan Kemp
    “I sat alone, armed with the eye of an anthropologist and the heart of a beggar.”
    Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

  • #9
    Jonathan Kemp
    “Prostitution is the apotheosis of capitalism.”
    Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych



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