“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
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“You can close your eyes if you want. Some things are less scary.”

Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 86)
Context: "You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.
"You're still in touch. I guess that's the test."
"Barely — barely."
"A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."
Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."

Of the bombing of Kosovo
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