38 posts tagged “literature”
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957.
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The Australian arts community is mourning the unexpected loss of one its true originals, the writer and poet Dorothy Porter, who died yesterday morning in Melbourne, aged 54, from complications from breast cancer.
Continue reading via The Sydney Morning Herald | Matthew Buchanan
Poetry International Web: Dorothy Porter
It's too hard to write good - I'd rather write bad by Dorothy Porter (via Australian Humanities Review)
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