What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.Jose Saramago
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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Americans have discovered fear.
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We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
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