"Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled."

-- Tillie Olsen

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“The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.”
“I will surrender to the moment today.”
“Once the impact of climate change becomes visible, politics will react quickly and forcefully. We saw that in Germany in 2002 during the floods on the Elbe River. They, in fact, determined the result of the (general) elections (later that same year).”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”
“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.”
“You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.”
“I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.”

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