“...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.”
― The Wandering Falcon
― The Wandering Falcon
“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
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“As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, ‘Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.’ I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can’t be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.”
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
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