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When it fell down, something in me burst. My mother is always saying, Begin as you want to end. But my beginning precedes me. Absences allow us one power over them: They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, ...more
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“We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.”
Emma Larkin

“We Burmese people are totally content,' he replied, hazing calmly into my eyes. 'Do you know why? Because we have nothing left. We have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed until there is nothing left.”
Emma Larkin, Finding George Orwell in Burma

“Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?”
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

“It was about the inestimable burden of their lives: the work, the houses, the friendships, the marriages, the children, as if all the things they’d wanted and worked for had cemented the impossibility of any sort of happiness. The”
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

J.D. Vance
“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.”
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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