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The Chinese Are Good At Repression And Can Be Pretty Ruthless About It.

A Man Is Sane Only To The Extent That He Subscribes To A Previously-agreed Construction Of Reality.

My Parents Gave Me The Gift Of Irreligion, Of Growing Up Without Bothering To Ask People What Gods They Held Dear, Assuming That In Fact, Like My Parents, They Weren't Interested In Gods, And That This Uninterest Was 'normal.' You May Argue That The Gift Was A Poisoned Chalice, But Even If So, That's A Cup From Which I'd Happily Drink Again.

There Are Things You Break That Can't Be Put Back Together Again. And Kashmir May Be One Of Them.

India, The New Myth--a Collective Fiction In Which Anything Was Possible, A Fable Rivalled Only By The Two Other Mighty Fantasies: Money And God.