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“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.”
― Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
― Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
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“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― A Fine Balance
― A Fine Balance
“We fucked a flame into being.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
― Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Luke’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Luke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Suspense, and Thriller
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