Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.
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“that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.”
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“A story that must be told never forgives silence.”
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“In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.”
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“Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.”
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“wash off the journey”
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