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“The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.” quote by Ken Liu — Download Open image

“The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.”

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