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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
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Iran welcomed the destructive desires of al-Musawi and Mugniyah, bringing their organizations under its control on June 27, 1983. These two groups would soon become known as Hezbollah, and their signature attack became the suicide car bomb,
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“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that's not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.”
― Pond
― Pond
“I could understand anything, under the right circumstances and for the right person. It was both a strength and a weakness.”
― Intimacies
― Intimacies
“Imagination, after all, costs nothing, it's the living that is the harder part.”
― A Separation
― A Separation
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn’t surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely. My stupid, stupid Merry dear, stupider even that your stupid father, not even blowing up buildings helps. It’s lonely if there are buildings and it’s lonely if there are buildings and it’s lonely if there are no buildings. There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness⎯not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it. The most lethal of manmade explosives can’t touch it. Stand in awe not of Communism, my idiot child, but of ordinary, everyday loneliness.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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