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"This author writes about the subtleties of race, class, and gender well. I got a little bored so I’ve paused it, but I’m looking forward to picking it back up again" — Jan 02, 2023 06:10AM
"This author writes about the subtleties of race, class, and gender well. I got a little bored so I’ve paused it, but I’m looking forward to picking it back up again" — Jan 02, 2023 06:10AM
“I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”
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“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“To people unfamiliar with the last thirty years of post-colonial academics, this might seem a ridiculous word, without meaning or substance. They may be right. It’s a fancy word for racist, but implies much more: an Orientalist is someone who invents exotic fictions about the East to prove a point about western superiority. Orientalism is a very serious charge to lay at the doorstep of a left-leaning academic.”
― The Butterfly Mosque
― The Butterfly Mosque
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