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Stephen Kotkin
“What we designate modernity was not something natural or automatic. It involved a set of difficult-to-attain attributes—mass production, mass culture, mass politics—that the greatest powers mastered. Those states, in turn, forced other countries to attain modernity as well, or suffer the consequences, including defeat in war and possible colonial conquest.”
Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

William T. Vollmann
“and the water and the grass and the white ripples on grey water, and white clouds among grey clouds and the wrinkled young silver skin of the water and life-bright lichens on black branches and on the still, bright river, a man and woman slowly poling their log canoe and the spiderweb (golden-green seed-wings already growing above the darker leaves of maples this early in August) and the smell of evergreens and the living grass, then the dying grass, brighter than an Indian basket”
William T. Vollmann, The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War

Philip K. Dick
“Flow my tears, fall from your springs!
Exiled forever let me mourn;
Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.”
Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Stephen Kotkin
“Revolutions are like earthquakes: they are always being predicted, and sometimes they come.”
Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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