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he began to think—as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it, too—at
Observers have more objective view of things and can see a bigger picture than the one involved
“You see, bhai, the effects of war are always personal, but in fact, war is the least personal thing there”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“Constantly defining yourself in opposition to what others say about you is not self-knowledge. It’s confusion.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“When the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a nation but in a consortium of industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. —Toni Morrison”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“The established majority takes its "we" image from a minority of its best and shapes a "they" image of the despised outsiders from a minority of their worst.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“Every good story has the same shape. The beginning establishes a goal, the more tangible the better. In the middle we watch the fight toward that goal. The end is what happens when it’s been reached, or when reaching it’s finally failed. What I always say when I teach is: the longer the middle, the better the story. The middle is when we still don’t know the outcome. That’s when we care the most about what’s happening. The longer you can keep the audience engaged in the pursuit without actually resolving that pursuit—that’s real mastery.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
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