"Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games."

-- Haruki Murakami

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“The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.”
“The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest”
“Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused”
“One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this.”
“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”
“Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation.”

Source : Nydia Velazquez's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
“Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.”
“I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?”

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