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“Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.”
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
― If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“Congressional oversight: When a congressional representative forgets to do something. (Historical note: this phrase once had another meaning, but since 9/11, years in which Congress never heard a wish of the national security state that it didn’t grant, no one can quite remember what it was.)”
― Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
― Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
“Yet what it most nearly resembles, that place where history turns, is the Hole he has posited at the core of his being: an emptiness, as devoid of darkness as it is of light.”
― All Tomorrow's Parties
― All Tomorrow's Parties
“Despite the fact that he fully intended to be one of them, Marce managed to feel resentment toward them, toward the people who could, in fact, leave their problems behind through the simple application of money.”
― The Collapsing Empire
― The Collapsing Empire
“Under the leadership of Henry Kissinger, first as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser and later as secretary of state, the United States sent an unequivocal signal to the most extreme rightist forces that democracy could be sacrificed in the cause of ideological warfare. Criminal operational tactics, including assassination, were not only acceptable but supported with weapons and money. A CIA internal memo laid it out in unsparing terms: On September 16, 1970 [CIA] Director [Richard] Helms informed a group of senior agency officers that on September 15, President Nixon had decided that an Allende regime was not acceptable to the United States. The President asked the Agency to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him and authorized up to $10 million for this purpose. . . . A special task force was established to carry out this mandate, and preliminary plans were discussed with Dr. Kissinger on 18 September 1970.”
― The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
― The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Sean’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sean’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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