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  1. Doris Lessing

    That a work of the imagination has to be "really" about some problem is, again, an heir of Socialist Realism. To write a story for the sake of storytelling is frivolous, not to say reactionary. The demand that stories must be "about" something is from Communist thinking and, further back, from religious thinking, with its desire for self-improvement books as simple-minded as the messages on samplers. The phrase "political correctness" was born as Communism was collapsing. I do not think this was chance. I am not suggesting that the torch of Communism has been handed on to the political correctors. I am suggesting that habits of mind have been absorbed, often without knowing it
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  2. Jean Baudrillard _ The Transparency of Evil:

    Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all the other categories. When everything is political, nothing is political anymore, the word itself is meaningless. When everything is sexual, nothing is sexual any more, and sex loses its determinants. When everything is aesthetic, nothing is beautiful or ugly any more, and art itself disappears.
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  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie _ Half of a Yellow Sun

    The truth has become an insult.
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  4. Qiu Xiaolong _ Death of a Red Heroine

    Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ The Passage of Power

    Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
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  6. Anne Fadiman _ At Large and at Small:

    The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. {I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.} There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it.
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  7. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Sisterland

    Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.
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