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War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

* (in which the author explains why he no longer reads The New York Times) Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the ph

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“The world is real; the suffering of others is real; one's actions can sometimes irrevocably determine the destiny of others; the mistakes one makes are often transmuted directly into others' pain; there is sometimes no way to undo that pain-the dead remain dead, the maimed are forever maimed, and th…”

— David Shields, amazon.com

Tagged: Nightmare of History, Suffering

“No matter what we say, the end of all sadness is a swoon into divinity.”

— David Shields, amazon.com

Tagged: Overcoming It All, Now You're Gone

“When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful.”

— David Shields, amazon.com

Tagged: War, The Aestheticization of Violence