Milan Vrekic
https://www.goodreads.com/mvrekic
When they reject the present, people are more likely to idealize the past.
“Whoever finds this wreck—please mail these letters for us. We waited so long for you—where were you? Our daily log is here for you to see in the folded Airman’s Guide.”
― Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue
― Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue
“like commerce-smothering death-pastry, and then throughout the world, and that ultimately all other ways of buying anything at all will cease and everyone will stay holed up in their homes in feverish anticipation of the next drone-borne aid parcel.”
― Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
― Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By
“nase ce sjene hodati po becu lutati po dvoru plasiti gospodu”
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“After World War Two most Americans had a vision of a better life just ahead. At the core of it was owning one’s own house—and as Henry Ford’s invention and a rapidly improving network of roads and highways opened up the vast spaces of farmland surrounding American cities, the vision started to become a reality: Suburbia. Indeed, people knew even what they wanted to pay for their first house: $5,000, which was then roughly equal to an average family’s wages for two years.”
― The Fifties
― The Fifties
“Why didn’t they make a toboggan out of airplane parts? Why didn’t they lay out some sort of signal? It’s easy for us, warm and dry and in no pain, to look at a map and wonder why three cold, hurt, starving people, lost on a mountainside in the snow didn’t do certain things.”
― Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue
― Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue
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