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“Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.”
― The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
― The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
“But once violence has been expended and empire has taken some person, place, or thing as its own, it gives that person, place, or thing a new name and erases the old one. This new name also erases the history of that person, place, or thing, as if everything that came before never happened.”
― Sparrow
― Sparrow
“Our middle age is going to be uniquely horrible. We'll be alone with our cats and our books. No one wants to admit it, but that's where it ends up. Solitude plus cats.”
― The Glass Kingdom
― The Glass Kingdom
“We possess ideas, but we are possessed by feelings. They lie too deep for understanding, astir with their own secret life and carrying us with them.”
― The Year of the French
― The Year of the French
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