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“The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it. I used to be quite anti-social media, but I can see now that it can be a good tool for artists, a way for us to speak to each other outside of standard economies and across languages and borders.”

Quote by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a novelist born in 1968. Her works often explore themes of identity, cultural conflict, and personal growth. more

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“Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree with the majority culture, is very important to me, and I think important for every artist. It's what we have: our voice, our intuition, the truth as we understand and know it.”

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