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"Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't - the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out."

“An official in Brazil remarked how strange it was that ‘people who had undergone so many hardships and difficulties could not agree lovingly together.’”

“In 1705, the year that David celebrated his eight birthday, his father stepped out to fetch some goat’s milk and dropped dead.”

Yeah Yeah That’s what they all say

“We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done - or haven’t done.”