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L’écriture comme discipline de combat Récemment, j’ai repensé à quelque chose que j’ai écrit il y a de ça quatorze ans, et qui est devenu un de mes passages les plus cités: « Chaque matin, quand je me réveille, je me demande si je devrais écrire ou faire sauter un barrage. » Bien que j’ai […]

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Loaded Words

Recently, I’ve been thinking about something I wrote fourteen years ago, which has become one of my most quoted passages: “Every morning when I wake up I ask myself whether I should write, or blow up a dam.” Despite having faith in my work as a writer, I knew that it wasn’t a lack of […]

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Nabitá slova

Nedávno jsem přemýšlel o něčem, co jsem napsal před čtrnácti lety, a co se stalo jednou z nejvíce citovaných pasáží: „Každé ráno, když se probudím, ptám se sám sebe, zda bych měl psát nebo vyhodit do povětří přehradu.“ Přesto, že věřím ve svou práci jako spisovatele, vím, že to není nedostatek slov, co zabíjelo lososy […]

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Reči kao oružje

Nedavno sam razmišljao o nečemu što sam napisao pre četrnaest godina, a što je postalo jedna od mojih najcitiranijih izjava. “Svako jutro kad se probudim zapitam se da li treba da pišem ili dignem u vazduh branu.” Uprkos tome što imam veru u svoj rad kao pisca, znam da nije nedostatak reči ono što je […]

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A New Declaration

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise. Thus the health of the real world is primary, more important than any social or economic system, because all […]

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