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last updated: November 28, 2023

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
-- Friedrich Engels

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Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.
-- Gore Vidal

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“...for hope is always born at the same time as love...”
“what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.”
“All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.”
“However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.”
“Welcome to the Amity compound,' says Johanna. Her eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. 'Let us take care of you.”
“Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.”
“Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.”
“You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"”

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“William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of Indiaâ€¦ He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.”
“The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.”