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Quote of the day

“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast. I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatize, and deny. (…) I believe that…
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Quotes of the day

“Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today! “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” “Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” “The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not…
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Quotes of the day

“Politics and religion are both expressions of our underlying moral psychology, and an understanding of that psychology can help to bring people together.” “(…) when a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. The true believers produce pious fantasies…
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“The way we use language to describe the Other is a large part of what gives that Other their humanity.” Toward Eternity – Anton Hur
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New month, new book

This coming Thursday, 19.12. at 19:00 EET, join me and other authors in my hometown of Timisoara, Romania to launch a book that talks about the city’s hidden spots and secret moments. UndergroundTM – Orasul care nu se vede, now in its third edition. My short prose, A Tramcar Called December (Un tramvai numit decembrie)…
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Feminist Haiku

when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.
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Election Haiku

seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.
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Quote of the day

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…
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Quote of the day

“Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…
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“Waitzkin characterizes medicine as an ideological system that “calls” the patient to be an identity that medicine maintains for him; the diagnosis is the most prevalent form of this identity. The ideological work of medicine is to get the patient to accept this diagnostic identity as appropriate and moral. When the patient accepts this identity,…
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Oamenii

(a poem in Romanian) Oamenii se taie cu aplomb unii pe alții Oamenii scot cuțitele și le înfig unii în alții se spintecă sfârtecă eviscerează își produc cicatrici lungi răni adânci găuri prin care poți vedea în zare o bucățică mică mică de albastru Oamenii își cară pumni se învinețesc își rup unii altora nasul…
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“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not be too complex a thing to be kept within the bounds of a single formulated purpose, whether it would not burst its way out, or if the purpose were too strong, perhaps grow…
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