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“There is no language without deceit.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“There is still one of which you never speak.'
Marco Polo bowed his head.
'Venice,' the Khan said.
Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?'
The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.'
And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
― Invisible Cities
Marco Polo bowed his head.
'Venice,' the Khan said.
Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?'
The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.'
And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
― Invisible Cities
“I don't know what's wrong with me, says Marianne. I don't know why I can't be like normal people.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how the system of censorship works, with a shadowy unease that looms over public conversations. Censorship is not made explicit, you just censor yourself. No one knows the consequences of critique, but no one wants to find out.”
― Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
― Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
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