"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?"
George Orwell, 1984
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It is hard to step outside of a prevailing way of thinking, particularly when you are convinced you are living in a free society.
D. Lessing
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The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.
--Charles Simić
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
-Nikola Tesla
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
--Anne Sexton
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I always want it to be a teleporter, dropping the reader into a second somewhere, that I also want to be able to go back and visit sometime.

