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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c5c2e5 | And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. | Merriment | ||
| 94b92d0 | Olebilecek adamlarin butun duygusal yukunu tasirlardi. Elem, dehset, sevgi, ozlem - soyut seylerdi bunlar, fakat soyut seylerin de somut bir agirligi vardi. Utanc verici anilar tasirlardi. Zor zapt edilen korkakliklarin ortak sirrini tasirlardi, kacma veya donup kalma ya da gizlenme icgudusu ve pek cok acidan yuklerin en agiriydi bu, cunku hicbir zaman sirtindan indiremezdin, mukemmel bir denge ve durus gerektirirdi. Onurlarini tasirlardi. .. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| d9ef349 | Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| d68cc02 | If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. | Alan Hirsch | ||
| 0482d7c | It was good to be alone. Really alone, without other people around you to let you imagine that your life had mingled with theirs. But that never was true. Even together, people were as solitary as cows in a field chewing their own cud. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 7601711 | They'll die, and then they'll be dead. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 817c280 | Most of our desires are cliches, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| f04da9a | Memory is a dream to begin with. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 6a19ef5 | People with big names aren't always big people. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| bc503c1 | Youth. A once-in-a-lifetime experience. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 322f7db | We're never too old for dreams. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 30fb2d9 | Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 853c63e | Look the stars are out. Don't you wish you could reach out and pick them like flowers?" "I hadn't thought of it." "Life. That's the way life is to me, Howard. You keep picking things until you get the one thing that really matters. Tell me about your great love." | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 67e24b4 | You just go from day to day and before you know it fifty years are up. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 428559d | Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 23b21c3 | The Outlaws generally write as well as the bankers, though more briefly. Some writers flourish like opportunistic weeds by hiding among the citizens, others by toughing it out in some sort of desert or another. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 336172e | She'd laugh at odd times as we talked and this flustered me pleasantly and made me laugh too, as if we both understood something we couldn't say. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| f1f653c | Because they were alone. In fact everyone was alone all the time, but when you got sick you knew it, and that was a lot of what suffering was-knowing. | Tobias Wolff | ||
| 56c2115 | Merrily, merrily, shall I live nowUnder the blossom that hangs on the bough. | Merriment | ||
| b067bd9 | Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin to study the individual deaths would consume a hundred lifetimes. Which is why one of our deepest instincts can be simply to record names - individual lives, equally specific, equally valuable - never emphasizing one for fear of disrespecting another: listing them, as it were on a single stone wall - and steer.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| f9e59c6 | The dead at Nyarubuye were, I'm afraid, beautiful. There was no getting around it. The skeleton is a beautiful thing. The randomness of the fallen forms, the strange tranquillity of their rude exposure, the skull here, the arm bent in some uninterpretable gesture there - these things were beautiful, and their beauty only added to the affront of the place. I couldn't settle on any meaningful response: revulsion, alarm, sorrow, grief, shame, .. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 7b4152e | Journalist Philip Gourevitch reports an interview with a Rwandan lawyer who said: "Conformity is very deep, very developed here. In Rwandan history, everyone obeys authority. People revere power, and there isn't enough education. You take a poor, ignorant population, and give them arms, and say, 'It's yours. Kill.' They'll obey." | James Waller | ||
| e6c689a | Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that people be invested in the leaders' scheme, and while genocide may be the most perverse and ambitious means to this end, it is also the most comprehensive. In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product o.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| ed044bd | Because of all this mixing, ethnographers and historians have lately come to agree that Hutus and Tutsis cannot properly be called distinct ethnic groups. Still, | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 162806d | I often found it helpful to think of central Africa in the mid-1990s as comparable to late medieval Europe - plagued by serial wars of tribe and religion, corrupt despots, predatory elites and a superstitious peasantry, festering with disease, stagnating in poverty, laden with promise. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| f7e1296 | The pygmy in Gikongoro said that humanity is part of nature and that we must go against nature to get along and have peace. But mass violence, too, must be organized; it does not occur aimlessly. Even mobs and riots have a design, and great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid,.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| fcc569b | But it was not merely her choice to be a witness of the dirty work on Tier 1A. It was her role. As a woman she was not expected to wrestle prisoners into stress positions or otherwise overpower them, but rather just by her presence, to amplify their sense of powerlessness. She was there as an instrument of humiliation...The MPs knew very little about their prisoners or the culture they came from, and they understood less. But at Fort Lee, b.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| fa62a5a | Harman was right: those pictures were worse. But, leaving aside the fact that photographs of death and nudity, however newsworthy, don't get much play in the press, the power of an image does not necessarily reside in what it depicts. A photograph of a mangled cadaver, or of a naked man trussed in torment, can shock and outrage, provoke protest and investigation, but it leaves little to the imagination. It may be rich in practical informati.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 0c6ffc6 | Brutality is boring. Over and over, hell night after hell night, the same old dumb, tedious, bestial routine: making men crawl; making men groan, hanging men from the bars; shoving men; slapping men; freezing men in the showers; running men into walls; displaying shackled fathers to their sons and sons to their fathers. And if it turned out that you'd been given the wrong man, when you were done making his life unforgettably small and nasty.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 78ad0cc | The genocide had been tolerated by the so-called international community, but I was told that the UN regarded the corpse-eating dogs as a health problem. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| a6e96c1 | In the last week of April 2004, a handful of the Abu Ghraib photographs were broadcast on and published in , and within a couple of days they had been rebroadcast and republished pretty much everywhere on earth. Overnight, the human pyramid, the hooded man on the box, the young woman soldier with a prisoner on a leash, and the corpse packed in ice had become the defining images of the Iraq war...Never before had such primal dungeon scene.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| fc0e8e1 | The desertion of Rwanda by the UN force was Hutu Power's greatest diplomatic victory to date, and it can be credited almost single-handedly to the United States. With the memory of the Somalia debacle still very fresh, the White House had just finished drafting a document called Presidential Decision Directive 25, which amounted to a checklist of reasons to avoid American involvement in UN peacekeeping missions. It hardly mattered that Dall.. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 27ca670 | The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people. | Alan Hirsch | ||
| 92e138a | Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. | Alan Hirsch | ||
| 67efe73 | When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing from an immediate post-Cold War perspective, the author, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, a German, observed, "The most obvious sign of the end of the bipolar world order are the thirty or forty civil wars being waged openly around the globe," and he set out to inquire what they were all about. This seemed promising until I .. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| 2ebf360 | The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist. | genocide idealism individual individuality leaders racism totalitarinism | Philip Gourevitch | |
| e11523c | language | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| bfd2ad6 | Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity. | Alan Hirsch | ||
| 40c601b | The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. | Alan Hovhaness | ||
| acd9f2e | Too much philosophy makes men mad. | Alan Judd | ||
| 95b7ea1 | It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold. | recognition | Alice Walker | |
| 6bb7a2f | Why us always have family reunion on July 4th, say Henrietta, mouth poke out, full of complaint. It so hot. White people busy celebrating they independence from England July 4th, say Harpo, so most black folks don't have to work. Us can spend the day celebrating each other. | Alice Walker | ||
| 7b5f1aa | Existem tantas coisas que nos nao compreendemos. E tanta infelicidade acontece por causa disso. | Alice Walker | ||
| 99f8c87 | Ja e duro o bastante tentar levar a vida sem ser maluco. | Alice Walker |