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“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“The last decades of Ottoman history cannot be understood properly without taking into account the revolution from below caused by the revivalist movements.”
― The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
― The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will inevitably lead to dead ends. Such is the price of admission.”
― Letters to a Young Scientist
― Letters to a Young Scientist
Tuncay’s 2025 Year in Books
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