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“I am ... cogito ergo sum ... I think, therefore I am.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

“You’re supposed to yell “fire,” though. Because no one comes when you yell “rape,” didn’t you know that, Bunny?”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“I wanted to say: I believe that art is a waking dream. And that imagination can bridge the gulf between dreams and reality and allow us to understand the real in new ways by seeing it through the lens of the unreal. No, I don’t believe in miracles, but, yes, my books do, and, to use Whitman’s formulation, do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I don’t believe in miracles, but my survival is miraculous. Okay, then. So be it. The reality of my books—oh, call it magic realism if you must—is now the actual reality in which I’m living. Maybe my books had been building that bridge for decades, and now the miraculous could cross it. The magic had become realism. Maybe my books saved my life.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

“To heal racism, is to heal insecurity.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine