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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Late in the Day: Poems

    And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren't just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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  2. Jonathan Franzen _ How to Be Alone

    Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
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  3. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Red Mars

    So it's democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this global battle, there's empty land here, there's scarce and nonrenewable resources here, and we're going to get swept up into the fight and we cannot choose not to be part of it, we are one of the prizes and our fate will be decided by what happens throughout the human world. That being the case, we had better band together for the common good, for Mars and for us and for all the people on earth and for the seven generations, it's going to be hard it's going to take years, and the stronger we are the better our chances, which is why I'm so happy to see that burning meteor in the sky pumping the matrix of life into our world, and why I'm so happy to see you all here to celebrate it together, a representative congress of all that I love in this world, but look I think that steel-drum band is ready to play aren't you" {shouts of assent} "so why don't you folks start and we'll dance till dawn and tomorrow scatter on the winds and down the sides of this great mountain, to carry the gift everywhere.
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  4. John Scalzi _ Lock In

    It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.
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