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Our internal difficulties, tribal war and the nuclei of political opposition seemed to have been accidentally concentrated in the regions with our richest mineral and power resources.
“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“the passing decades have taught me that political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the market elites could ever get away with doing.”
― Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“he said my name as if it meant something all its own—a spell.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
“What Bennett would have likely learned from the Barry administration was that arrests and incarcerations would prove futile as long as the drug trade provided economic opportunity, and as long as treatment needs went unmet.”
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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