Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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not real sympathy but sentimentality

Del once said that Mother’s sympathy for people, without any sympathy for what caused their circumstances, was not real sympathy but sentimentality.

Perhaps it’s true. The fact is we went down there and we took. But I don’t think it was Mother’s responsibility to change that fact, or anything el…

—p.315 Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
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the company will fight to get its assets back

Feelings run high. Just sit at the Teresita for one lunch rush and you’ll get the drift. People who feel that everything was stolen from them, and just because it’s been almost fifty years now doesn’t mean they have forgotten. They haven’t. Nor have the companies. A company is like a person in that…

—p.312 by Rachel Kushner