Authors destroying me

No “we” should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind.

Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.

Lastly, and I know it sounds like an excuse, but neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.

To be human is to want that which we cannot have.”