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“Make a place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to the imagination.”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
“The patience of the oppressed has always been the most inexplicable, as well as probably the most important, fact in all of history.”
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933
― The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933
“And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
― King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
“For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement.”
― A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
― A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
“We got into my old Corolla and started drifting around the streets of Tokyo at 2:30 a.m., looking for a bakery. There we were, me clutching the steering wheel, she in the navigator's seat, the two of us scanning the street like hungry eagles in search of prey. Stretched out on the backseat, long and stiff as a dead fish, was a Remington automatic shotgun. Its shells rustled dryly in the pocket of my wife's windbreaker. We had two black ski masks in the glove compartment. Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt.”
― The Elephant Vanishes
― The Elephant Vanishes
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