Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
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Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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words are actions. They punch, tear, hurt, harm, soothe, amuse, educate, illuminate. They express ideas and feelings, and they make people feel better, and they move them to tears, and they enrage them, and they define them. We are all made of nouns, live by verbs, enlarge and entertain ourselves with adjectives and adverbs.