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“The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths.”
― Devil House
― Devil House
“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes canons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions, and judgments it forms, transmits, reproduces.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
“Work is more fun than fun.”
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“Look like a man who takes his dates to cheesy tourist attractions. Be a man who steals paintings.”
― Mister Impossible
― Mister Impossible
“Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny; the object is a ‘fact’ which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable. To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
Charlsa’s 2025 Year in Books
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