Sarah spoke with such lazy authority: she had that rich-girl demeanor, treating life like a video game she’d already played through twice.
“People who have cats live longer. There’s research. I think maybe it’s because you don’t want to live as long after it dies. My cat was very old, at the end he was almost blind, I used to wake up at night because he’d accidentally knock things over on the floor. I miss that all the time now. It’s hard to get used to a silent apartment.”
― The Answer Is No
― The Answer Is No
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Statues are not neutral, and do not exist in vacuums. Our reactions to them depend on who they commemorate, who put them up, who defends them, who pulls them down, and why.”
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
“Germany proves that removing statues does not erase history, nor cause it to be forgotten. If anything, it may have the opposite effect.”
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
― Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
“The poverty of average Indians is a reason why most of my readers have a good life. It is very cheap to be middle class in India. Because the poor subsidize us all. They force the government and the markets to keep the prices of essentials, including water and electricity, very low, which we consume many times more than the average Indian.”
― Why the Poor Don't Kill Us
― Why the Poor Don't Kill Us
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