“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
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“We should hide our strength rather than put it on display.”
Feng Shih-kuan (2016) cited in " Taiwan deploys jet fighters to monitor China's aircraft carrier http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201612270011.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 27 December 2016
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
Address at the Dedication of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture, delivered 24 September 2016, National Mall, Washington, D.C. reported in the American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. As Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20200221020146/https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm from the original https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbushafricanamericanmuseum.htm on 21 February 2020.
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Source: "The Favorite Game"
Context: Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
“…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.”
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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
TV interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReCQE8B5nY after 90-day moratorium (March 1964)
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 4: 1921
