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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
― Desmond Tutu (Foreword)

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed them.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?"

"Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

“It is said in the South there is no future, only three kinds of past - the distant past of heritage, the near past of experience, and the past-in-waiting.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War