Seno Gumira Ajidarma quotes

“When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.”
-- Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”

“The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.”

“For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”

“It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.”

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”

Source : "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

“Nothing will replace good journalism.”

“Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.”

“Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.”