![]() ![]() Battlefields: "A significant proportion of the detainees held at Guantanamo were picked up far from anything remotely resembling a battlefield.And if you feel this fine sort of envy, which is socialist envy, you get busy trying to make a world in which riches are better distributed." (Umberto Eco, "The Gorge." The New Yorker, 7 March 2005) ![]() And then there's another envy, which is justice envy, which is when you can't see any reason that a few people have everything and others are dying of hunger. But there's bad envy, which is when your friend has a bicycle and you don't, and you hope he breaks his neck going down a hill, and there's good envy, which is when you want a bike like his and work your butt off to be able to buy one, and it's good envy that makes the world go round. ![]() Envy: "Don Cognasso will tell you that this commandment prohibits envy, which is certainly an ugly thing.(Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That." Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968) ![]() I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that same way again." "It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York.
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