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"E. L. Doctorow once said that “writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This... See more
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop
Byung-Chal Han • Vita Contemplativa
Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The Finale of “The Rehearsal” Is Outlandish and Sublime
newyorker.com
“What does it mean to think of revolution not as destroying capitalism, but as ceasing to create capitalism?”
Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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bangers and on capitalism
This whole piece is just ::chef's kiss::
But it’s like boobs are Velcro. You can practically hear the ripping sound when a guy finally looks up.
Bev Potter • Why Can’t Men Stop Staring At Our Boobs?
"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
In Poland, we have a saying, “when something doesn't make sense, it's probably about money."