Stalin Mendes

“How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes—and”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake