Ian Buruma Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.”
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“Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.”
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“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”
-- Ian Buruma
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