“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created---civilization, courtesy, decency---is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
“There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.”
― Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
― Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
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