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Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life

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“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty years ago. They want people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all the increasingly shitty jobs with the less pay, reduced benefits, the end of overtime—and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you come to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal Wall Street friends. And you know what? They’ll get it! They’ll get it all. They count on the fact that Americans will remain willfully ignorant.” The prophetic Mr. George Carlin “It’s just a ride. We can change it any time we want. It’s just a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money—a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to make this world a better ride. Take all the money we spend on weapons every year and use it to feed and clothe the poor of the world. There will be enough to help every person in the world, not one left out—and we can explore space, both inner and outer, together, in peace.” Bill Hicks “Try to learn to breathe deeply, really taste food when you eat, and when you sleep to really sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” William Saroyan”

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Author:Carlin, Hicks, Saroyan
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“Menjernihkan air keruh memang gak segampang meneteskan nila dalam belanga susu Bar. Kemarin waktu aku di sana, Mama ngobrol sama Papa, Mama minta Papa jangan terlalu keras lagi sama kamu. Soalnya Mama ngerasa kamu mulai berubah ke arah yang lebih baik. Tapi Papa bilang itu belum seberapa. Papa mau kamu berusaha menjernihkan airnya. Citra buruk itu kamu sendiri yang menciptakan. Orang yang biasa berbohong memang akan kehilangan kredibilitasnya. Itu yang Papa maksud menjernihkan air keruh tak semudah meneteskan nila dalam belanga susu. Mengembalikan kredibilitas tidak semudah saat menghilangkannya”

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Book:BaRania - Kesempatan Kedua
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