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Pierre Bourdieu
“Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.”
Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice

Charles Baxter
“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”
Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness. The more like ourselves we become, the odder we become.”
Alice Weaver Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

Peter S. Beagle
“I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?”
Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

George Orwell
“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.”
George Orwell, A Collection of Essays

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