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“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do. Revolutionaries sometimes do intend to destroy institutions all at once. This was the approach of the Russian Bolsheviks. Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“Sometimes just being alone with someone feels nice, even if there isn't anything to say.”
― The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
― The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
“My parents weren't drawn to the United States by any specific dream, just a chance for something different. Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”
― Stay True
― Stay True
“His shotgun barked, and sparks showered from the muzzle as if it were a flamethrower.”
― Battle Royale
― Battle Royale
“The sea breeze blew in, stirring up the smell of the pool and blood, mixing with it. The sound of waves crashing carried on.”
― Battle Royale
― Battle Royale
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