Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Andrew Solomon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“[I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you.”
“You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could be solved. It wouldn't matter what country they visited or what they did during their stays.”
“Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.”
“Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.”
“I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness.”
“[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.”
“You can't fit in with people by pretending to be just like they are; you fit in by engaging in a dialogue about your differences, and by putting aside the assumption that your way of life is in any way preferable to theirs.”
“No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.”
“As we talked, I came to understand that hope is like a happy childhood; it equips its beneficiaries to deal with the traumas that inevitably ensue. It is experienced as primal love. (p.15)”
“A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.”
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