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"I finally made it past the first, really dark, chapters. They were incredibly difficult to read – even though very well written – I can only imagine how difficult it was to translate and edit that section of the book. Going over the segments again and again... This is not to say that chapter Three isn't violent. It is. But in a different way. A way that allows me to continue reading, slightly less visceral." — Apr 13, 2017 05:23AM
"I finally made it past the first, really dark, chapters. They were incredibly difficult to read – even though very well written – I can only imagine how difficult it was to translate and edit that section of the book. Going over the segments again and again... This is not to say that chapter Three isn't violent. It is. But in a different way. A way that allows me to continue reading, slightly less visceral." — Apr 13, 2017 05:23AM
I do not like Hardie, it was beastly what he said about Ravi being only clever. And he wrote a foolish book. Being good-looking and interesting and having the heavy-lidded gaze of a romantic tapir does not excuse writing a foolish book.
This 'tapir' thing made me laugh out loud! A little more when I got it confused with a capybara and couldn't find the quote :")
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it can be rebuilt in a way that serves all, rather than a selfish, hoarding few.”
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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