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“Survival, though, means more than going on. It means understanding the past and finding a way to subdue it, to reconcile it, to overcome it.”
― The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
― The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong
“Reunion has taught me that there is no way to remake your history or your family in the image you want. But there can be more, if you are willing to look for those stories that were lost - you might just find someone new to forgive, to love, to grow with. Someone to take your hand and search *with* you.”
― All You Can Ever Know
― All You Can Ever Know
“But then you can't hope for much justice in the subcontinent, where fulfillment comes to very few among the needy and restless millions, and where aspiration itself can feel like a luxury. In Kashmir, isolated and oppressed and then dragged into the larger world of competing men and nations and murderous ideologies, more people have been confronted with this awareness in the last ten years than in all of its tormented modern history.”
― Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
― Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
“The American dream was to create our own destiny, but it's perhaps an ethical duty, as a human being, and as an American, to consider that our American dreams may have come at the expense of a million other destinies.”
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
― Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
“One must fight for one's truth while making sure not to kill that truth with the very arms employed to defend it: only if both criteria are satisfied can words recover their meaning. With this in mind, the role of the intellectual is to seek by his own lights to make out the respective limits of force and justice in each camp. It is to explain the meaning of words in such a way as to sober minds and calm fanaticism, even if this means working against the grain.”
― Algerian Chronicles
― Algerian Chronicles
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