Hunters in the Dark Quotes

“A demented child can blow all that classical music and Marx and mathematics out of you in a split second, just because he feels like watching your convulsions. Look to your own salvation, the Buddha said.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Hunters in the Dark

“You destroy people in order to make ideas live. It’s a uniquely Western kind of behavior. Pol Pot was a good student, remember, and a very good carpenter. A gentle boy. He lived for ideas, which is why you had women being drained of all their blood in a converted school.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Hunters in the Dark

“Shakespeare in a hip beard, Wordsworth in psychedelic colors. The hint that they took drugs and had orgies. The hard, yet wandering look in those teenagers’ eyes as he walked back and forth with an open book, reading paragraphs of George Eliot. It was comical, but there was no other way. His rage built up over a long time but it was a rage against the years he himself had spent mastering this material. He had to justify it somehow. He could not just admit that it had been a waste of life and time.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Hunters in the Dark

“The core Occidental principles of nosiness and constant outrage were not their thing.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Hunters in the Dark