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"Wow. Edward focuses on the origins of orientalism, and how the west views the “Oriental” as passive and unable to think for himself, or govern himself, justifying all the colonization occurrences in the last 3 centuries. Also it’s funny how the west just defines us textually but once our actions deviate from what they described then it’s Islam vs non Islam. Anyway,i can’t read books the same way ever again." — Jan 08, 2026 01:27PM
"Wow. Edward focuses on the origins of orientalism, and how the west views the “Oriental” as passive and unable to think for himself, or govern himself, justifying all the colonization occurrences in the last 3 centuries. Also it’s funny how the west just defines us textually but once our actions deviate from what they described then it’s Islam vs non Islam. Anyway,i can’t read books the same way ever again." — Jan 08, 2026 01:27PM
“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
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“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Diary
― Diary
“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
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