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Jane Hong
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“Derrida remarked that friendship’s driver isn’t the pursuit of someone who is just like you. A friend, he wrote, would “choose knowing rather than being known.” I had always thought it was the other way around.”
― Stay True: A Memoir
― Stay True: A Memoir
“negotiation is impossible.” With a surprising display of backbone, the president declared: “This I cannot do; this I will not do.”
― The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
― The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
“Campbell’s Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.”
― Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
― Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“I never found out what happened to Chele, or to any of the countless others who were with me. I fear they died in the Sonoran Desert. This book is for them and for every immigrant who has crossed, who has tried to, who is crossing right now, and who will keep trying.”
― Solito
― Solito
Jane’s 2025 Year in Books
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