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“Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.”
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― The German War: A Nation Under Arms
― The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“They say that suffering is a good school. Yes, true. But happiness is the best university.”
― Letters to Véra
― Letters to Véra

“Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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