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“We don’t study as children, and we don’t make our kids study when we’re parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools—like peace and quiet at home—to succeed.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from dying in battle. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. The dead are not your masters.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
“It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.”
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
“The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.”
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
“When I left class that day, I did not tell them what I myself was just beginning to discover: how similar our own fate was becoming to Gatsby's. He wanted to fulfill his dream by repeating the past, and in the end he discovered that the past was dead, the present a sham, and there was no future. Was this not similar to our revolution, which had come in the name of our collective past and had wrecked our lives in the name of dream?”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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