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“For the first time in their history, Americans had come up against a problem they could not begin to master with traditional American solutions -- private capital, individual initiative, hard work -- and yet the region confronting the problem happened to believe most fervently in such solutions. [...] When they finally saw the light, however, their attitude miraculously changed -- though the myth didn't -- and the American West quietly became the first and most durable example of the modern welfare state.”
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
“More than anyplace else, California seems determined to prove that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a lie.”
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
“In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, as it is shoved a thousand feet out of Colorado River canyons to water Phoenix and Palm Springs and the irrigated lands around them.”
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
― Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
“This is Trump’s radical proposed revision to the traditional presidency: not only that the president doesn’t need to be honest, but that he can be known to everyone as a “fucking liar”—not an occasional liar, not a calculating liar, but a pervasive, constant liar and bullshitter on all subjects at all times.”
― Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
― Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
“You've got to choose some line of action and live by it. Otherwise nothing matters at all. You probably end with a gas oven. I've chosen certain people who've had the lean portion for some centuries now."
"But your people are betrayed all the time."
"It doesn't matter. You might say it's the only job left for anyone--sticking to a job. It's no good taking a moral line--my people commit atrocities like the others. I suppose if I believed in a God it would be simpler."
"Do you believe," she said, "that your leaders are any better than L.'s?" She swallowed her brandy and began to tap the counter nervously with the little metal bullet.
"No. Of course not. But I still prefer the people they lead--even if they lead them all wrong."
"The poor, right or wrong," she scoffed.
"It's no worse, is it, than my country right or wrong? You choose your side once for all--of course it may be the wrong side. Only history can tell that.”
― The Confidential Agent
"But your people are betrayed all the time."
"It doesn't matter. You might say it's the only job left for anyone--sticking to a job. It's no good taking a moral line--my people commit atrocities like the others. I suppose if I believed in a God it would be simpler."
"Do you believe," she said, "that your leaders are any better than L.'s?" She swallowed her brandy and began to tap the counter nervously with the little metal bullet.
"No. Of course not. But I still prefer the people they lead--even if they lead them all wrong."
"The poor, right or wrong," she scoffed.
"It's no worse, is it, than my country right or wrong? You choose your side once for all--of course it may be the wrong side. Only history can tell that.”
― The Confidential Agent
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Club Miéville à la Goodreads. This is a club for people interested in discussing anything regarding the writer China Miéville; - his work, both fictio ...more
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