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Ron Shoemaker
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What needs explanation is not poverty, which is the natural state of mankind, but wealth.
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“There’s also a word in German, Sehnsucht, used to describe an indefinable and intense yearning for a person, or place, or an experience, or state that is unattainable or beyond one’s current reach . . . This loneliness resides deep inside every one of us, whether a person is in a relationship, a marriage, or a group, or a city—it’s a shadowy part of who we are as humans.”
― The Swimmer
― The Swimmer
“The worst thing you can do in life is to become a soldier, George often told him. Being a soldier is all about the power of one man over another.”
― All the Glimmering Stars
― All the Glimmering Stars
“Year by year, as long as government programs promising equity and social justice did what they were actually designed to do, which was transfer wealth from the poor and the middle class to those at the top of the economic ladder, this residence would be worth ever more fantastical sums,”
― The Bad Weather Friend
― The Bad Weather Friend
“and I don’t have to put on a monkey suit to do it.”
― Coming Apart
― Coming Apart
“War wasn’t glorious. It wasn’t won because one side had heroes and the other had cowards. The truth was that no side had more right to victory than the other. No man had more right to live than the man he was trying to kill. War was pain and fear and dying men screaming for their mothers. It was the stink of blood and the screech of shells. It was filthy foxholes and relentless rain, thick sucking mud and blizzards which swallowed up the sky and the ground and reduced the world to a scream.”
― The Secret Hotel in Berlin
― The Secret Hotel in Berlin
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