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Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the
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“En situación tan rara, y a pleno sol, creo haber tomado conciencia de que aquel 9 de abril de 1948 había empezado en Colombia el siglo XX.”
― Vivir para Contarla
― Vivir para Contarla
“Sólo ahora, cuando ya pasé por todas las edades que mi padre tuvo en su larga vida, he empezado a verme en el espejo mucho más parecido a él que a mí mismo.”
― Vivir para Contarla
― Vivir para Contarla
“Del interior del país, que se cocinaba a fuego lento en su propia sopa, llegaba apenas el óxido del poder: las leyes, los impuestos, los soldados, las malas noticias incubadas a dos mil quinientos metros de altura”
― Vivir para Contarla
― Vivir para Contarla
“I, along with our fourteen soldiers, set off into the urban wilderness of Baghdad. We had six humvees, lots of ammunition, over a million dollars worth of equipment, and no idea what the fuck we were going to do with it all.”
― The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War
― The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War
“The experience at Suez was little help. Probably they would have been better off in the long run had there been no Suez Canal in their past.”
― The Path Between the Seas
― The Path Between the Seas
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