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“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is a free searching self perfecting being, it follows that the state is a profoundly anti human institution. That is, its actions are incompatible with the full harmonious development of human potential in its richest diversity. Hence incompatible with the true end of man…!”
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“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
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“...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We weren't quite sure what concubines were, but we guessed: a concubine ... Concubines! One thousand! One thousand women in all colours and shapes - but all of them sexy, of course - one thousand - one thousand raving beauties lying side by side on a bed (what a bed! How wide it must have been!), all of them smiling, all of them reaching out their arms, all of them saying something in Hebrew - but the meaning was unmistakeable - "Come here, sweety." One thousand women. If one were to spend twenty, or fifteen minutes with each one of them, how long would it take to...? A problem that our math teacher never assigned us for homework...!”
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Weekly Short Stories Contest and Company!
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— last activity Apr 11, 2026 11:21PM
Every two weeks we have a different contest in both short stories and poetry and a poll to see who wins after each contest. No prizes except bragging ...more
The Italo Calvino Appreciation Society
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— last activity Apr 04, 2026 01:18AM
The one and only group dedicated to the greatest Italian writer to have graced this fine earth.
Fiction Writers
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— last activity Dec 13, 2025 09:40AM
This group is for everyone who loves to write anything fiction. If you're an author, you want to be an author, or you just love to write, anyone is we ...more
THE Group for Authors!
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— last activity Apr 22, 2026 06:28PM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
Oulipo
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— last activity Mar 09, 2011 04:49AM
Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Harry Matthews, etc.
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