My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me.
Rory StewartUnlike most travel writers, he [Babur] is honest.
Rory StewartStichwörter: travelogues
I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
Rory StewartThe question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
Rory StewartStichwörter: foreign-policy interventionism humanitarian-intervention
In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was only four hundred and fifty dollars a month, and Baghdad had still not agreed to give the governors an independent budget.... For the sake of a tiny sum of money - a couple thousand dollars a month from the hundred billion we had spent on the invasion - we were alienating our key partner and successor.
p. 264
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Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever
Rory StewartIf democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
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