The Teacher of the Future
The Chinese have a saying: “The past that is not forgotten becomes the teacher of the future.” More
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
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Frank Dikotter
1961 - PresentFrank Dikotter is a Dutch historian with an emphasis in modern Chinese history. He is a professor in both Hong Kong and London. Cultural Counterrevolutionary.
"It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill."
– Statement made by Mao in 1959, as recorded by Frank Dikotter, Mao's Great Famine
Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More