© Diego Marín
“The young man attacked that damp and gray melancholy with poetry. Neruda revealed to us that growing up in a land that is always rainy and cold, childhood is long and static. Even the stars were wet in Neruda’s world.”
"It is in such murky waters that Machiavelli still swims, helping us out even now with the necessary language to rationalize the accidental civilian casualties caused when we use remote-controlled drones to assassinate suspected terrorists in foreign lands, not to mention the cumulative collateral damage of our recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria."
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Eugène Grasset
“When it was time to introduce Rachel’s dad to Hung’s dad, they realized that they had a problem. Rachel’s dad was fluent in Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Polish and German (the last of which he refused to speak), and Ba Anh was fluent in Vietnamese, English, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. They did not have a language in common.”
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