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"Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets."
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"We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions."
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."
"We are members of the Church of Christ."
"People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%."
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"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
"I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close."
"The human heart is my territory. I write about love because it's the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world."
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