I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
Decision, Power, Want
Writing a novel is agony.
Novel, Fiction
Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
Fiction
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
Human, Fiction
Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
Courage
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
Society, Politics
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Life, Future
...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
Future
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
Humor, Future
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